Seeing your Students at NASA: Wright Brother's inspired Lift and Drag Calculations Using Trigonometry
Tuesday 09/13/2016
4:00 pm ET
FREE 1-hour Webinar
Educators in Grades 6-12

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

Inspired by the Wright Brothers and their development of gliders, you can use trigonometry and paper airplanes to produce your own data using elevation angles, distances and height to calculate the forces of Lift and Drag for different airplane wing shapes compared to actual NASA airplanes. 

This session touches on Common Core Math: Geometry and Next Generation Science Standards PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions.

Marilé Colón Robles is the Educator Professional Development Specialist at NASA Langley Research Center and serves the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina and South Carolina. She creates and teaches professional development workshops for pre-service and in-service teachers as well as informal educators all over the country, delivering these opportunities in both English and Spanish and is part of the Students’ Cloud Observations On-Line (S’COOL) team delivering professional development on clouds and climate. Marilé began her career with NASA in 2010 as an Informal Educator where she curated and developed content for the Hispanic Education Initiative’s bilingual website, organized and hosted teacher professional development workshops, museum events, and STEM summer camps. She has also developed interactive STEM games and taught virtual lessons in Spanish to K-12 classrooms all over the country through NASA’s Digital Learning Network. Prior to joining NASA, Marilé was a graduate research assistant examining interactions between clouds and aerosols and their impact on Earth’s energy balance while earning her graduate degree in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.