1. WHAT IS EARTHKAM?

2. WARMUP – do not copy question USE EXCELLENT SENTENCES TO ANSWER EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: 1. WHAT IS EARTHKAM? 2. WHERE IS EARTHKAM? 3. WHAT DOES EARTHKAM DO ? 4. WHY IS EARTHKAM IMPORTANT ?

3. What is EarthKAM? A NASA- sponsored, undergraduate student-operated educational program aimed at exciting middle school students about and involving them in science. A NASA- sponsored, undergraduate student-operated educational program aimed at exciting middle school students about and involving them in science. EARTHKAM HOME – INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

4. WHAT DOES IT INVOLVE? Schools from around the world are invited to take advantage of this exceptional educational opportunity Schools from around the world are invited to take advantage of this exceptional educational opportunity Students in participating classrooms use ISS EarthKAM’s web pages to control a digital camera mounted on the International Space Station Students in participating classrooms use ISS EarthKAM’s web pages to control a digital camera mounted on the International Space Station Students, educators, and the general public view the photos on the World Wide Web Students, educators, and the general public view the photos on the World Wide Web

5. WHAT IS THE BENEFIT TO STUDENTS? With ISS EarthKAM, participating middle school students can… With ISS EarthKAM, participating middle school students can… Share the excitement of a NASA space mission Share the excitement of a NASA space mission Participate in real-time, cutting edge research in many fields, including Participate in real-time, cutting edge research in many fields, including Earth Science Earth Science Geology Geology Physics Physics Geography Geography …and many more! …and many more!

6. WHO MAKES IT WORK? UCSD UCSD Undergraduate students at the University of California, San Diego are responsible for the day-to-day operations of ISS EarthKAM Undergraduate students at the University of California, San Diego are responsible for the day-to-day operations of ISS EarthKAM Software development Software development Web page design Web page design Public affairs Public affairs Image analysis Image analysis Mission operations Mission operations Partners Partners NASA Johnson Space Center Jet Propulsion Laboratory TERC – Center for Earth and Space Education Texas A&M University UC San Diego

7. AN ISS EARTHKAM MISSION Students determine photo locations by referencing maps, atlases and EarthKAM website Map page.

8. CLICK ON STUDENTS_SMOC PAGES_ SPECIAL OPP to find links to special opportunities

9. Click on Students_SMOC_Map page. Find an orbit which has a location near where you want to photograph. Remember that you can only take pictures during the DAY - RED

10. Click on the map to zoom in.

11. Make sure your distance off track is less than 9.0 miles If your distance off track is more than 9.0 miles, then click in different places on the red groundtrack until your are less than 15.0 miles.

12. Enter all the information requested on the photo entry page.

13. Congratulations – when you see this you correctly submitted your request. Make sure all the info is entered on your Actual Image Request Chart!!

14. AN ISS EARTHKAM MISSION MOC representatives compile photo requests and send them to Johnson Space Center, where they are uplinked to ISS.

15. AN ISS EARTHKAM MISSION Software onboard ISS reads the requested times, takes the photos, and then saves them onto a hard disk Software onboard ISS reads the requested times, takes the photos, and then saves them onto a hard disk Captured photos are then downlinked to ISS EarthKAM computers at UCSD Captured photos are then downlinked to ISS EarthKAM computers at UCSD

16. AN ISS EARTHKAM MISSION Images are posted online on the Photo Request page.

17. ONCE YOU HAVE IMAGES Compare your image to Jet Navigation Maps or Google earth maps.

18. ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE human-environment interactions

19. ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE cities, agriculture, transportation

20. ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE natural and artificial boundaries, physical processes

21. ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE rivers, mountains, oceans, lakes, deserts, or coasts

22. ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE cloud patterns, conditions at specfic latitudes

23. ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE interactions between human beings and their environment

24. ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE location specific studies

25. ANNOTATE YOUR IMAGE

28. ANALYZE YOUR IMAGE

29. TO REGISTER TO REGISTER http://www.earthkam.ucsd. edu/public/educators/regis tration.shtml http://www.earthkam.ucsd. edu/public/educators/regis tration.shtml http://www.earthkam.ucsd. edu/public/educators/regis tration.shtml http://www.earthkam.ucsd. edu/public/educators/regis tration.shtml MORE INFO AND MANY RESOURCES MORE INFO AND MANY RESOURCES http://www.earthkam.ucsd.ed u/public/about/ http://www.earthkam.ucsd.ed u/public/about/ http://www.earthkam.ucsd.ed u/public/about/ http://www.earthkam.ucsd.ed u/public/about/ QUESTIONS FOR ME QUESTIONS FOR ME J Hoeffner J Hoeffner Science Chair / Technology Resource Teacher Mardela Middle High School 24940 Delmar RD Mardela Springs, MD 21837 410.677.5142jhoeffne@wcboe.org

30. ISS Mission 15 – EarthKAM 07_04 Sunita Williams Flight engineer Astronaut Clayton C. Anderson, flight engineer; along with cosmonauts Oleg Kotov, flight engineer and Soyuz commander; and Fyodor Yurchikhin, commander

31. Purpose of EarthKAM 04_07 Find evidence of humanity’s footprint on the ecology of the Earth Find evidence of humanity’s footprint on the ecology of the Earth Capture images of coastlines – look for seditmentation Capture images of coastlines – look for seditmentation Capture images of rainforest destruction Capture images of rainforest destruction