Exploring Beyond the Planets: Searching for Habitable Worlds with Kepler
08/09/2017 
6:30 pm ET (3:30 pm PT)

FREE 1-hour Webinar
Educators in Grades 4-10

The NASA Educator Professional Development Collaborative at
Texas State University is providing a 1-hour webinar.

This webinar will explore planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of a star that is similar to our Sun. While this doesn’t mean that the planet is inhabited, it does mean that it has many of the characteristics that our own Earth-Sun system and the odds of it hosting life are worth further explorations.


Dr. Karen Crow Roark is an Education Specialist for the Educator Professional Development Collaborative (EPDC).  She has been in the educational world for over thirty years working as a teacher, assistant principal, and professional development trainer in rural Georgia to the heart of Washington, DC in public, private, and non-profit.  She attended Breanu University, Berry College, State University of West Georgia, University of Sarasota, and University of Georgia.  She received her Doctoral in Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Leadership.  In 2001 she received her National Board Teacher Certification.

Some of her accomplishments include receiving a Fulbright Scholar to Japan; working as an Educational Leadership Institute Scholar at Harvard University; participation in the Teacher in Space summer program at Huntsville Space Center; and being named to the National Teacher Hall of Fame. She has had the opportunity to travel to forty-nine of the fifty states and several countries overseas.