Solar System Exploration: Life On Mars?
Thursday 04/06/2017
6:00 pm ET (3:00pm PT)
FREE 1-hour Webinar
Educators in Grades 5-8

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

Is there life beyond our Earth? Using NASA STEM curriculum, participants will explore the possibility of life on Mars using the definition of "life" to determine whether there is anything alive in three different simulated Mars soil samples. The lessons have students experiment, record observations and draw pictures as they collect data from the samples to determine if life may exist in any of them.

Steve Culivan is the NASA STEM Education Professional Development Collaborative Specialist at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Mr. Culivan develops and provides NASA STEM online and face-to-face professional development programs for in-service, pre-service and informal educators. Mr. Culivan was the Principal Investigator for two International Space Station (ISS) in-flight education demonstrations. He additionally developed and co-developed several NASA curriculum products. Prior to his current twenty-eight year career with NASA Education, Mr. Culivan taught middle school Earth and Space Science, life science, English, art and coached several sports. He holds a current Louisiana teaching certificate in science and English. Mr. Culivan received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from Louisiana Tech University and a Masters of Science degree in Education from Oklahoma State University.