NASA experiments and the SOLs

For those of you submitting SEM Satchel experiment proposals, here are the SOL's that you should correlate your experiment with. Find one or two SOL's that best fit your experiment and quote that one directly in the application.

Virginia Standards of Learning

Size and Scale

The view from the back of the envelope

Scaling the universe to your desktop

What does a million look like?

Powers of Ten

Units of Measurement

Here are some interesting links regarding measurement:

Conversion of Units

Dictionary of Measurement

The "SI" system

US Customary Units

Unitconversion.org

Measuring in "Smoots"

List of strange units of measurement

Google Calculator

NASA research opportunities

Here are some of the opportunities we have through NASA for independent research:

The Student Experimental Module (SEM) satchel aboard the International Space Station

Here is the online application. We will talk about this more in class before the Oct 7 submission deadline.

Here are the selection criteria. Try to tailor your experiment to be an attractive fit for their criteria rubric.

Here is the site for NASA's Education Flight Project Office. We will be looking for other flight opportunities at the Wallops Island Launch facility.

Welcome...

Welcome to th e 2005-06 edition of the James River Physics Blog. Hope you find this a useful resource. I will be posting relevant internet sites here as they relate to our class.

Enjoy,

-Mr. Couillard