{"id":13486,"date":"2016-11-08T12:28:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T17:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13486"},"modified":"2016-11-08T12:28:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T17:28:26","slug":"sally-ride-earthkam-lets-middle-school-kids-take-photos-of-the-world-from-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13486","title":{"rendered":"Sally Ride EarthKAM lets middle-school kids take photos of the world from the ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthkam.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Sally Ride EarthKAM<\/a>\u00a0program<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>is a NASA educational outreach program that enables students, teachers, and the public to learn about Earth from the unique perspective of space.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[It allows]\u00a0<em>middle school students around the world request images of specific locations on Earth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthkam.org\/ek-images\" target=\"_blank\">gallery of EarthKAM images<\/a>\u00a0taken from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">International Space Station<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 55th round of EarthKAM imaging starts today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthkam.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13487\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=13487\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/home-slide-m551.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"880,330\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;earthcam_mission 54&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"earthcam_mission 54\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/home-slide-m551.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13487\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/home-slide-m551.jpg\" alt=\"earthcam_mission 54\" width=\"500\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/home-slide-m551.jpg 880w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/home-slide-m551-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/home-slide-m551-768x288.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the crew on the ISS set up the EarthKAM for taking images:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/stationreport\/2016\/11\/07\/iss-daily-summary-report-11072016\/\" target=\"_d\">ISS Daily Summary Report \u2013 11\/07\/2016 | ISS On-Orbit Status Report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>Sally Ride Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle Schools (EarthKAM)<\/strong>:<br \/>\nThe crew configured the camera, laptop and associated Sally Ride EarthKAM software at the Node 2 Nadir hatch window. Once configured, the EarthKAM team, in association with middle school students around the world, selected image targets which will be downlinked and used in the study of physics, computers, geography, math, earth science, biology, art, history, and cultural studies. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The objective of Sally Ride EarthKAM is to integrate Earth images with inquiry-based learning to enhance curricula in support of national and state education standards; to provide students and educators the opportunity to participate in a space mission and to develop teamwork, communication, and problem solving skills; to engage teams of students, educators, and researchers in collaborative investigations using remotely-sensed data; and to incorporate the active use of Web-based tools and resources in support of the learning process.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this video, Tom Marshburn shows how the EarthKAM is set up on the ISS:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J7jBT9RTXW8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Leesa Hubbard is a school teacher in Tennesseee and here she talks about using the EarthKAM and other space resources in her science lessons:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a41fgEbTjGg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Sally Ride EarthKAM\u00a0program is a NASA educational outreach program that enables students, teachers, and the public to learn about Earth from the unique perspective of space. [It allows]\u00a0middle school students around the world request images of specific locations on Earth. Check out the gallery of EarthKAM images\u00a0taken from the International Space Station. The 55th round &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13486\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sally Ride EarthKAM lets middle-school kids take photos of the world from the ISS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-eyes-in-the-sky","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3vw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15592,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15592","url_meta":{"origin":13486,"position":0},"title":"Middle school students\/teachers can register for next Sally Ride EarthKAM session of ISS earth imaging","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Mission 60 for the\u00a0Sally Ride EarthKAM\u00a0program is set for\u00a0February 20-26. 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