California high school student Kevin Fangzhou Lu has directed a citizen scientist video interview, starring artist Stanley Von Medvey of the YouTube channel StanDrawsSpaceships. Stan is an illustrator, storyboard artist and animator, but he also has had a life-long fascination with spaceflight that began with getting his first telescope at age 6. He hopes to […]
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Celebrate Citizen Science Day with a CosmoQuest Scavenger Hunt!
Today is Citizen Science Day, and we wanted you to have some fun exploring our website and projects! This virtual scavenger hunt takes you around our website, introduces you to our projects, and it just a little bit of fun! When you’re finished, you can check your answers here, and comment below with your score […]
CosmoQuest Shares Citizen Science at NSTA
This is a guest blog post from Larry Lebofsky and Theresa Summer. The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) had its National Conference in Atlanta this year from March 15–18, 2018. Founded in 1944, NSTA is the world’s largest organization dedicated to building innovation and excellence in science teaching and learning. The conference in Atlanta was […]
Come see CosmoQuest at NSTA in Atlanta this week!
Are you going to the National Science Teachers Association National Conference in Atlanta this week, March 15–18, 2018? CosmoQuest will be there! Please join us for one of our workshops listed below and pick up special CQ swag. EarthMatch: Making Earth Science Culturally Relevant March 15, 2018, 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM Thursday — Georgia […]
CQ Science – Post 13: How Impacts Change the Rocks – Samples in Hand
We saw in our last post in this series (Post 12) that impact events can change the target rocks in many ways. Some of these changes can be seen from orbit. But something as powerful as an impact event can also change the target rocks in dramatic ways that you can only see close-up. If […]