SCIENCE RESOURCES IN SPANISH AND OTHER LANGUAGES
Last Updated: 15 September 2009

Teresa J. Kennedy, Ph.D.
The following information was compiled for the
NASA Idaho Space Grant Consortium and S2N2

 Originally published for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP)
The Universe in the Classroom. January 2003. http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/60/spanish.html

 Contents of the original article have also been described in the following publications:

TESOL Publication, December 2006. “Making Content Connections Online via the GLOBE Program.”
In E. Hanson-Smith & S. Rilling (Eds.), Computers in the Language Classroom: From Theory to Practice, Chapter 7.

Foreign Language Annuals, Volume 39, No. 3, Fall 2006. "Language Learning and Its Impact on the Brain: Connecting Language Learning
with the Mind Through Content-based Instruction." The Journal of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

LINGO, Summer 2004. The Newsletter of the Pacific Northwest Council for Languages (PNCFL).

Learning Languages, Volume 9, No. 2, Spring 2004.  "NASA Products for the Content-based Language Classroom." 
The Journal of the National Network for Early Language Learning. 

El Noticiero de NASA, Volume 1, No. 1, October 2003.  NASA Headquarters, Code N.
http://www.education.nasa.gov/divisions/higher/overview/hispanic_news_text_version.html

S'COOL Breeze, September 2003. Langley Research Center.

NASA Voyages Education and Public Outreach Newsletter, May 2003. NASA Headquarters,
Office of Space Science EP/O. http://spacescience.nasa.gov/education/news/Voyages_i8_print.pdf

NASA ESE Education Update Newsletter, February 2003. Earth Science Enterprise Education
Program Implementation, Goddard Space Flight Center.

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NASA Content-Based Resources for Language Classrooms

Background

The NASA homepage http://www.nasa.gov contains a wealth of information for the educational community. Using NASA materials in other languages provides teachers working with English Language Learners (ELLs) the opportunity to assist their students to acquire English literacy skills in the regular classroom while at the same time provides these students with access to high-quality science information in their first language.  These materials also enhance the curriculum of the traditional content-based foreign language classroom and are targeted at all ages.  NASA materials have been translated into many languages including Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Thai.  For NASA materials in many different languages see http://science.nasa.gov/OtherLanguages.htm or for selected highlights in Spanish see http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/En_Espanol.html.

The K–12 student body found in many U.S. schools currently represents a large growth in the number of students whose native language is not English.  Moreover, figures released in January 2003 by the Census Bureau reported that the Hispanic population, the nation's largest minority group, is roughly at 37 million, up 37% from Census 2000. The number of ELLs in U.S. schools continues to rise (see ata/2001/index.html. NASA education materials are the means to create an enriched science program that actively includes all students in the school regardless of their first language, enhances the academic achievements of the entire student body, integrates literacy skills in reading and writing with scientific inquiry, and specifically provides ELLs the opportunity to learn grade level curriculum.  In addition, NASA materials in other languages are wonderful resources that can also be used at Family Science Nights to involve the whole community as well as provide a means for family members who speak little or no English the opportunity to become involved in their child’s education.

During National Hispanic Heritage Month in September 2007, the National Science Foundation (NSF) began a three year project to produce 600 one-minute science radio spots in Spanish that feature the latest science news as well as answers listeners' science questions in Spanish through the program "Cielo y Tierra." 

NASA Resources in Spanish and Other Languages

Many NASA resources translated into the Spanish language, as well as in many other languages, can be found online, at NASA Space Centers and at NASA Educator Resource Centers scattered across the United States. Many of these resources have been aligned with national standards, appropriate state frameworks and inquiry guidelines. The National Science Foundation (NSF) also supports the translation of many innovative classroom materials. Three highlighted sources are listed below followed by over 50 additional links to bilingual science materials and programs.

• Ciencia@nasa, the Spanish-language companion to NASA's award-winning Science@NASA Web site, features stories from all fields of science, aeronautics and aerospace. Educators can subscribe to a mailing list and receive regular lessons, also posted online in Spanish, at http://ciencia.nasa.gov/. This site contains information regarding space sciences, astronomy, living in space, earth science, as well as physical and biological sciences.
• The Astronomical Society of the Pacific has written the new resource (Fall 2006) "Mercury, Its time has come."  This Web site is a must see and contains fantastic information on the mission to Mercury and how to safely observe the transit with your students. View the English language version at  http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/69/mercury.html and view the Spanish language version at http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/69/mercurysp.html. 

• The National Optical Astronomy Observatory Center (NOAO) has created the Spanish Language Astronomy Materials Education Center with funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF).  The Center has archived over 500 science resources translated into the Spanish language, many resources funded by NASA.  The Centro de Materiales Educativos en Español en NOAO can be found online at http://www.astronomyinspanish.org/slm/esp/.

In addition, many NASA Centers provide language translations of their educational products. Below is an extensive listing of available resources by NASA Center as well as other bilingual science resources and programs. It is important to note that periodically the location of these educational resource materials move. Please report link errors that you may encounter to <tkennedy@globe.gov> so that problematic links can be corrected. 

AMES Research Center (Moffett Field, California)

• Amesnews http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/index_span.html disseminates news releases, document and image archives, fact sheets, point-of-contact information and related items to provide access to news releases to Spanish-speaking reporters, the public and educators. 
• The Genesis Mission Web site is organized into sets about the Genesis mission, the Genesis spacecraft, and about
  different disciplines in science http://www.genesismission.org/educate/kitchen/resource/factsheets/index.html. 
  Look under the link Las Series de la Misión for the Spanish versions!
• Bilingual Women of NASA project has assembled an outstanding Web site containing historical information, women of NASA profiles, chat opportunities and ESL materials http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/espanol/intro.html
• Robin Whirlybird is an online, interactive book about one girl's visit with her mother to the rotorcraft research center where her mother works written in English, Spanish and Chinese.  http://rotored.arc.nasa.gov/   
• La Misteriosa Atmósfera de la Tierra contains many activities and lesson plans intended for use with secondary students to study the atmosphere in a hands-on manner in Spanish http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlnasa/units/EarthAtmos/

Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, Maryland)

• The Sun Earth Day Kit, Making Sun Earth Connections is located at http://sunearthday.nasa.gov and at  http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/classmaking.htm and contains materials that provide a basic understanding of the dynamics of the Sun, of the aurora, and of the turbulent space around Earth. Presentations are available in both English and Spanish in Versions 2 and above.  Additional Sun Earth Day resources including the CD, Version 2, in both Spanish and English, can be found online at http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/SECEF_SunEarthDay/NewPresSplash.htm. For a listing of all Sun Earth materials go to http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/postsecondary/features/F_Spanish_Resources_Available_from_Sun_Earth.html.
• Sun Earth Day Materiales en Español  http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2007/spanish/index.php 
• Our Very Own Star: The Sun (Nuestra Propia Estrella: el Sol) is designed for students in grades K–4, containing information
  about solar flares and sunspots and why scientists study the sun. http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2006/multimedia/books.php
• Auroras: Mysterious Lights in the Sky (Auroras: Luces misteriosas en el Cielo) is designed for students in grades
  K-4 and describes how scientists are able to learn about these lights in the sky! http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2006/multimedia/books.php
• Solar storms Poster (Tormentas Solares) downloadable in PDF or html can be found at
  http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/cmeposter/
• Star Light, a children's coloring book with information about our closest star, the Sun, is in both English and
  Portuguese. http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/explore/materials/index.html
• Tracking Sunspots exercise, a web-based exercise in PDF format, aimed primarily at a middle and high school level
  audience can be found at http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/explore/activities/ExerSP.pdf.
• The Dynamic Sun SOHO CD contains 14 of SOHO's most spectacular images with explanations. Expanded and
  improved from the old portfolio. Available in both English and Spanish on Version 5 is available from NASA Core or
  online at http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov.
• SOHO paper model available for download in PDF format at
  http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/freestuff/papermod.pdf. 
• The SOHO Portfolio, an image set of 14 of SOHO's most spectacular images with explanations. http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/explore/materials/Port2001SP.pdf 
• Mission to Geospace http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/conexion.html in Spanish contains links to
  several individual sites dealing with Geospace.
• Star child http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/translations.html is in German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
• Star Gazers from Goddard http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Meclipt.htm in Spanish.
• From Stargazers to Starships http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Mintro.htm in Spanish.
• The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere found at http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/Intro.html contains an overview of space research on the Earth's environment in space. The description, provided in both English and Spanish, is non-mathematical but quite detailed.
• La Multicolor Luz Solar http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Msun4spc.htm.
• Skylab:  Physics in Space.   http://soho.igeofcu.unam.mx/skylab/
• The Great Magnet The Earth  http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthmag/Mdmagint.htm in Spanish.
• The El Niño Primer contains a Power Point in Spanish available in audio format that explains the ENSO event.
  http://nsipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/enso/primer/spanishwelcome.html   
• Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais http://www.cea.inpe.br/cea/index.html (in Portuguese).

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, California)

• The New Millennium Program http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/espanol.html.
• NASA Kids Space Place http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/espanol which contain information and materials from all NASA missions and enterprises. 
• Greetings to the Universe can be accessed in 55 Different Languages http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/languages/languages.html
• Deep Space 2: Version en Español  http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ds2/spanish.html
• Cassini Mission to Saturn Fact Sheet http://eis.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini_epo/multimedia/products/pdfs/cassini_msn_espanol.pdf.
• Search for Origins Project created the Genesis Facts Sheets in Spanish found at http://www.genesismission.org/educate/kitchen/resource/factsheets/index.html.
• Infrared Processing and Analysis Center www.spitzer.caltech.edu/espanol The Web site provides images and information about infrared astronomy projects that have been and currently are being supported by IPAC.
• TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 Fact Sheets and 10 Years of TOPEX/Poseidon lithograph.   http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/presentations-espanol.html
• Voyage on the High Seas, created by the Space Place, is a Jason-1 board game poster has been translated into French by Aviso, the French organization that distributes satellite altimetry data from Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1, and other ocean observing satellites. English http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/education/jason-1-game.html. French version: www.aviso.oceanobs.com/html/kiosque/galerie/jeu_fr.html.

Johnson Space Center (Houston, Texas) has been working collaboratively on various bilingual projects in Texas.

• Topex Poseidon Coloring and Activity Book on-line in Spanish by the Texas Space Grant Consortium. http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/topex/spanish/coloring
• StarDate Universo Guide in Spanish was created by the McDonald Observatory at
  the University of Texas at Austin.  http://www.radiouniverso.org

Langley Research Center (Hampton, Virginia)

• NASA’s Kids Science News Network is a Web and video-based program using 1-minute video newsbreaks featuring kids teaching kids about mathematics, science, and technology. KSNN™ corrects science misconceptions and provides answers to kids’ questions about their world (such as “Why is the sky blue?”). The Web site provides teachers and parents with supporting content, hands-on activities, related resources, a computer-graded quiz, and links to educational web sites. The series targets grades K–2 and 3–5 and is available in English http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov and in Spanish at http://ksnnsp.larc.nasa.gov/intro.html. 
• Hispanic Astronauts at NASA http://oeop.larc.nasa.gov/hep/hep-astronauts.html.
• Latina Woman of NASA http://oeop.larc.nasa.gov/hep/lwon.
• NASA's Destination Tomorrow, a 30-minute program series for grades 9–18, parents, and lifelong learners, and heightens interest in mathematics, science, technology, and NASA. The series serves as a mechanism for involving parents in their children's education. This series is produced in English and "dubbed" in Spanish. http://destination.larc.nasa.gov
• The Solar Web site found at http://www-sage3.larc.nasa.gov/solar/ is available in pages in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese or German by installing the "Babel Fish" on your browser.
• NASA Langley Center for Distance Learning offers many of their award-winning instructional programs in Spanish in order to inspire the next generation of Hispanics to become future engineers and scientists. http://dlcenter.larc.nasa.gov
• Noticiencias NASA, designed for K–5 students, is a Spanish-language, research-inquiry, standards-based and technology-focused program designed to introduce young Hispanics to the world of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, NASA missions and research.  The series is also broadcasting on Saturday mornings on Univision in Puerto Rico. http://ksnnsp.larc.nasa.gov/intro.html
• NASA’s SCIence Files™ (Grades 3–5) is a series of instructional programs integrating broadcast, print, and on-line elements. The series seeks to motivate students to become critical thinkers and active problem solvers. Each 60-minute program includes a teacher’s guide and web-based activities and materials. This Emmy®-award-winning series combines standards-based instruction with problem-based learning for explorations in mathematics, science, and technology. http://scifiles.larc.nasa.gov
• NASA CONNECT™ (Grades 6–8) is a series of instructional programs integrating science and technology with mathematical concepts via broadcast, print, and on-line elements. Each 30-minute program emphasizes specific web-based, hands-on activities to ensure students understand and relate the on-screen information to their work in the classroom. http://connect.larc.nasa.gov  For an example of what NASA CONNECT™  has to offer see Functions and Statistics: Dressed for Space, a NASA Connect Lesson Guide that corresponds to the 2002-2003 NASA Connect Series.  http://connect.larc.nasa.gov/episodes.html
  See http://www.globe.gov/fsl/html/templ.cgi?calipso&lang=en&nav=1 for a special feature article regarding a NASA CONNECT episode filmed in France!
• NASA LIVE™ (Grades 5–12) is a series of free, standards-based videoconferencing programs.  The programs emphasize the connection between science, technology, engineering, mathematics and NASA . They also increase awareness of careers in these fields. NASA LIVE™ invites educators and students to participate in an interactive, virtual setting without time spent away from the classroom. NASA LIVE™ is ISDN-based and IP-based. http://live.larc.nasa.gov.
• NASA Langley Hispanic Education Outreach http://oeop.larc.nasa.gov/hep/hep-outreach.html.

Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville, Alabama)

• A Little Rock on Mars is a story dedicated to the Mars Pathfinder Team and is translated into Spanish, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Czech, Catalan, French, and Italian.  http://www.suekientz.com/little_rock

Stennis Space Center (South Mississippi)

• Stennis es... http://www.ssc.nasa.gov/about/stennis/stennis-es.html  is an online introduction to NASA's Stennis Space Center, which conducts propulsion testing and remote-sensing research on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

NASA's International Programs providing educational materials in many languages

• The CERES S'COOL Project
  The CERES S'COOL Project involves K–12 students in real science as they provide atmospheric measurements taken specifically for the purposes of verifying satellite data. In this program, students are working as scientists to assist in the validation of the CERES instrument by comparing the surface- and space-based observations to learn more about clouds, climate and the ways in which clouds may affect the Earth's climate. The Web site contains mirror sites in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Thai can be seen at http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/
   
• The International GLOBE Program
  The GLOBE Program is a hands-on environmental science and education program designed for use in K–16 classrooms. GLOBE is a world-wide network of students, teachers and scientists from over 18,000 schools in 109 different countries and focuses on activities that complement studies in science, mathematics, technology, social studies, and literacy through investigation areas in atmosphere, hydrology, land cover biology, and soils. Because GLOBE is a worldwide program, their Web site www.globe.gov contains authentic materials ready for classroom implementation available in all six United Nations’ languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish), and at least part of the GLOBE Teacher’s Guide is now available in Dutch, German, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, and Thai, with many other materials becoming available in other languages through GLOBE’s international partners. Elementary GLOBE books (K–4) also provide additional bilingual resources for literacy teachers. For information about how GLOBE can be used in the language classroom see http://www.cal.org/resources/archive/news/2003spring/globe.html or http://www.globe.gov/fsl/html/templ.cgi?actfl_2005&lang=en&nav=1

NASA and NOAA collaborations

• El Niño Web sites in both Spanish and Portuguese Languages can be found at http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/spanish.html and http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/portuguese.html
• Tropical Weather Outlooks in Spanish http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/srnews/stories/2005/sp_web.htm
• Hurricane Awareness in Spanish   http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/espanol/intro_espanol.shtml
• SciJinks at http://scijinks.nasa.gov is a new, highly interactive Web site  launched by NASA and NOAA to document the Nimbus 1, a whimsical blimp-like weather lab in the sky.  The site provides information about the GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites) operated by NOAA and how their orbits allow them to hover over the same spot on Earth keeping a watch on our environment. The objectives of the site are to provide “science fun for middle-schoolers, run the Bad Weather Joke Machine, write Wild Weather Stories, travel the World of Weather Folklore, take a Weather Challenge, prepare your family to weather any disaster, learn how to do a weather science fair project”, and more. SciJinks plans to eventually add other topics related to technology and space and Earth sciences.  Not yet translated to Spanish but in process.
• NOAA posters in Spanish:
  El Niño and related posters---Contact the NOAA office of public and constituent affairs outreach unit 1305 East West Highway, Room 1W514  Silver Springs, Maryland  20901.

NASA Core

NASA Core manages the distribution of many educational materials that can be purchased http://education.nasa.gov/edprograms/core/home/index.html and a complete catalog can be viewed at http://catalog.core.nasa.gov where you can also easily conduct a search of the catalog using the keyword “Spanish”.  Titles translated
in Spanish to date include:

• Winning:  Aerospace—The Next Decade is a 20-minute video targeted at students introduces students in grades 7–12 to the unique career opportunities in America's aerospace industry.
• Nuestra Propia Estrella el Sol - This is the Spanish version of the easy-to-read book Our Very Own Star: the Sun that can also be used in a basic bilingual or Spanish classroom.  Item number:  300.1-14P, 2002. Cost: $ 3.00
• Our Solar System is a 29 minute video that teaches the names, orbital positions, and characteristics of each planet using the phrase "my very educated mother just served us nine pizza pies”, for grades K–4. Each tape contains four versions of the program: English, Spanish, sign language, and open captioned for the Hearing Impaired
• Star Gaze: Hubble's View of the Universe. Star Gaze is a DVD that contains over an hour of images of the universe from the Hubble Space Telescope in 2000, plus Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound music from 2002 and provides in depth facts and details about the telescope and what it has found so far.
• NASA Destination Tomorrow™ 2000-2001 5-PART SERIES is a 30-minute educational program in Spanish, designed for educators, parents, and lifelong learners by NASA's Center for Distance Learning.

Other Bilingual Programs and Science Resources

Challenger Learning Centers
Challenger’s e-Missions connect Mission Control with classrooms anywhere in the world for unique, interactive learning adventures that allow teachers to utilize technology. Challenger’s e-Missions are a motivating way to engage students with the power of math and science in real-life situations. Working in teams, students apply their critical thinking skills to make recommendations that may potentially save lives. Prior to the mission, students complete classroom “training” activities to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.  

The Challenger Learning Center in San Antonio offers a Bilingual Space Mission, a unique Spanish language immersion activity. Students fly a two-hour simulated space mission en Español. Students are assigned as astronauts working in the Space Station and as controllers in Mission Control. They perform duties as Navigation officers, Life Support, Communications, Space Probe, Biomedical, Remote, Isolation, and Data teams. All briefings and communications are conducted in Spanish.  For more information see http://www.challenger.org/clc/lc_profile.cfm?lc_id=66

Student Contests (Spanish and English)
The Vinny^TM Awards is a contest to produce a one minute video that explains how Science, Technology, Engineering and/or Mathematics (STEM) is being used or can be used to help solve a global problem. Exam ples of such problems include pollution or food distribution. Teams of students work with a teacher and a mentor to research a global problem and ways that STEM is or can be used to help solve the problem. You might want to pick a problem that has an impact on your community or is of concern to you and people you know. The team then brainstorms about how to explain the problem and solution to 4th graders with a video, and then produces the video. The team submits the video and other materials. For more information see:  http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/vinny/

UCAR--University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

• Meteorological materials in Spanish   http://www.meted.ucar.edu/index_es.htm
• Window to to the Universe includes documents, images, movies, animations, and data sets that explore the Earth and Space sciences and the historical and cultural ties between science, exploration and the human experience.  The site is written in three reading levels and is available in English and Spanish.  http://www.windows.ucar.edu   

Infoastro:  The planetarium of Pamplona, Spain.  http://www.infoastro.com

Assorted Children’s Bilingual Science Books:
The Barahona Center – NSTA Recommended content area books in Spanish.  Click on recommended books and under SUBJECT type "science" limiting your search by GRADE LEVEL (from Grade K–Grade 3 or from Grade 5–Grade 8). http://www.csusm.edu/csb  

Summary           

NASA has assigned Aerospace Education Specialists (AESP) and Educator Resource Center (ERC) representatives in every U.S. state who are eager to assist you with locating and implementing materials in your classroom.  AESP representatives will visit your school to speak to you and your students.  For more information see http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/AESP.html and also visit NASA’s ERCN Web site at http://education.nasa.gov/about/contacts/Educator_Resource_Center_Network.html to find a complete listing of all Educator Resource Centers by state as well as those located on or near NASA Field Centers or at planetariums, museums, colleges, universities, and other non-profit organizations around the United States where you can obtain free NASA educational materials for your classroom as well as information regarding educational training workshops.

On a final note, NASA also provides opportunities for digital learning and video conferencing that can walk you and your students through life a size mock up of the Space Station as well as opportunities for video conferencing with astronauts of which many speak languages other than English. For more information see http://nasadln.nmsu.edu/dln/content/about/  Please note that the programs are presented in English and interpretation to any other language would need to take place on the requester's end.

Remember, NASA posters, lithographs and teaching materials have great potential for inspiring students to conduct in depth discussions and to practice their language skills. The sample resources below can be used to initiate many activities with your language students!

--International Space Station Modules
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/vrml/station/
Human Space Flight (HSF) - Orbital Tracking  (Locate the Space Station)
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/  (Space Station News)

--Suited for Space (Astronaut)  
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/143159main_Suited_for_Spacewalking.pdf

--NASA Night Sky poster:  http://science.hq.nasa.gov/education/catalog/resources/resources93.html  For explanations about how the poster can be used see http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html or http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Lights/

--NOAA Night Sky poster:  http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/maps/cgi-bin/public/ms/poster/viewer

--GLOBE at Night  http://www.globe.gov/GaN/ An international event for students to observe and record visible stars as a means of measuring light pollution in a given location during the week of 8–21 March 2007.

In addition, NASA Explores http://www.nasaexplores.com provides free weekly K–12 educational articles and lesson plans on current NASA projects that can be easily accessed through an internal search engine. Printable and downloadable, these supplemental curriculum resources meet national educational standards in science (NSTA), mathematics (NCTM), technology (ISTE, ITEA), and geography (NGS).

About the Author     
Dr. Teresa Kennedy, Director of the International Division for NASA's GLOBE Program, and former NASA Office of Space Science (OSS) Idaho Broker Facilitator for S2N2 (NASA Idaho Space Grant Consortium and Space Science Network Northwest), has been assembling this collection of NASA and related materials translated into Spanish and other languages since 1996. She is a Professor of Bilingual/ELL/STEM Education at the University of Texas at Tyler, and has been working with the NASA Education Team since 1996, serving as the Director of the NASA Regional Educator Resource Center for the University of Idaho (1997–2003), the NASA OSS Broker Facilitator for the State of Idaho (2001–2003), and as a member of the NASA Idaho Space Grant Consortium (1996–2003).  She also served as the Co-Director of the Idaho GLOBE Partnership (1996–2003), the Deputy Chief Educator and Assistant Director of U.S. Partnerships for the GLOBE Program at their former headquarters office in Washington D.C. (2002–2003); as well as the Director of GLOBE International/U.S. Partnerships and Outreach (2003–2006), and as the Deputy Director for the GLOBE Program (2007-2009) at their headquarters office at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. She currently directs the International Division of the GLOBE Program from UT Tyler, also serving as the U.S. Country Coordinator for GLOBE, the Director of the GLOBE North America Regional Office and GLOBE International Help Desk serving the GLOBE community in 111 countries.  Dr. Kennedy continues to teach online courses related to bilingual STEM education as well as collaborate with the Idaho Space Grant Consortium and the S2N2 Network.  

NASA’s international education programs provide the opportunity for integrated language and content instruction, weaving interdisciplinary lessons in science, mathematics, social studies, language arts and world cultures into everyday classroom teaching through extensive Web environments.  This resource list, intended for use in language classrooms, is constantly being updated so check the Web site often as new materials are being identified all the time!  
Teresa J. Kennedy