Greetings MY NASA DATA Alumni and Newslist members!


With this E-note, we are including people who have signed up on the MY NASA DATA
newslist, as well as our teacher workshop graduates.  If you know someone who is
interested in this information, they can sign up for that list here:
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/HPDOCS/email_registration.html


Lesson Plans
We posted another 5 lessons from the summer workshop in the last month (#22, Rex's
lesson on SST in the Gulf Stream, was the most recent).  We are continuing to finalize
the rest.  If you have not yet heard from us about your lesson, you will soon.  We are also
posting a new team lesson today (Lesson H). This is a timely lesson from Carrie on the effect
of hurricanes on SST.  If it fits your curriculum, please try it out and give us any feedback you
may have.  Also, the reviews up through ID 15 are just in from the NASA Earth Science
Education peer review.  We'll share specific comments on your lesson as we work through
that material.


Data
We're fine-tuning the SST data, and are looking again at the data we have versus the lessons
we are editing to try to identify additional datasets of interest. If there is a parameter you would
like to explore, please let us know and we can look into it.


Science Projects
We posted the initial Citizen Science area of the website a couple of weeks ago.  If your students
have to do a science project, please keep this in mind as a resource. We have a list of project
ideas we are still working on, so more ideas will be appearing here. And don't forget, if your
students do some sort of research project using LAS data, we would like to post such reports
(as long as you give them a reasonable grade!).


Feedback question of this month:
If you use or promote MY NASA DATA, we'd like to know!  If you can, send us a quick email when you
- make a presentation about MY NASA DATA (local, regional, national, pre-service or in-service)
- use a MY NASA DATA lesson in your class (and feedback on how it went is great if you have time)
- use a MY NASA DATA dataset (and comments on how we can make this easier, please!)


Results of feedback question of last month:
Would you find it helpful if we post (selected) current scientific papers related to the
data that are available in the LAS?
        I got one positive response to this question (Hi Diana!), so we are selectively including links
        to papers where we think it makes sense.