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As an educator and scientist, I am excited to talk to you about how you can be part of #GenerationalScience with Landsat.

Did you know that this year is the 50th anniversary of monitoring Earth from space for the benefit of all?  You can learn more about what it took to achieve this landmark through the great resources by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronatics and Space Administration (NASA) who jointly manage the satellites, data, science, and education.  

Ways you can be involved:

1. Make your own Landsat animated GIF of an area on Earth, post on social media and share the link here using the #Landsat and #STEMvideohall.
2. Become a citizen scientist using the GLOBE Observer mobile app and contribute ground photos.
3. Explore Camp Landsat (2020) activities and make your own art with #LandsatCraft.
4. Share stories of areas that have changed over your life with us so scientists and educators can learn from your experience.
5. Connect with us about complimentary activities from your own STEM for All showcase videos as we like making new friends!

As we say at AmericaView...."Everyday is Earth Observation Day" and we invite you to share your observations for the benefit of all current and future Earthlings.

Great video. Has there been research into how well the games help students learn about the Landsat Program?

This is a wonderful project that allowed us to learn and investigate together with our students.
Congratulations!

Such a beautiful video.  Granted, you have an incredibly rich treasure chest of images to draw from.  Landsat has always been amazing, and continues to be. Still this video is so well done.

Checking in.  Have you been staying in touch with the staff at CLEAN of late?  That's the enormous and very influential resource library, primarily for K-12 teachers and schools. Looking at the Earth with an emphasis on climate change and resiliency. Keeping that connection active and robust is highly recommended

Landsat never gets old.  In my opinion, it will be quite appropriate for the CLEAN Network to update how it is promoting your program and resources.

Thank you for this marvelous contribution to the 2022 Showcase!

Thank you for submitting this video. Landsat has so much potential to improve STEAM education for people of all ages and backgrounds. Based on my own experience on improving STEM education through my previous work at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, I hope you can address some of the following questions that occurred to me as I watched the video:

• Do your resources help educators understand how specific modules, posters, and other resources are connected to various kinds of learning standards such as the Next Generation Science Standards or the Common Core for Mathematics at the national level or to other state-level standards (it occurs to me that NASA education programs across the nation could focus on standards in the states where they’re located)?
• Have you tried to collect data about whether and how your resources are actually being used? From my own experience, I know that widespread distribution of and access to resources doesn’t translate into use by educators.
• Can you provide some additional thoughts and insights about your strategies for engaging the general public vs. engaging educators? Do you employ similar or different approaches when attempting to reach and engage educators in the formal vs. informal education sectors?
• Along with working with educators who are already in the profession, has there been any effort by the various players in the Landsat initiative to work with pre-service teacher education programs so that new teachers can become familiar with these resources toward the beginning of their teaching careers?
• The title of your video emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning, which I support and applaud. Interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning are difficult to accomplish because of the multiple systemic barriers that currently exist in higher education. When I worked at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, I was involved with a project that tackled these issues that you, your colleagues, and other visitors to this video might find of interest (freely downloadable):
  
  “The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education: Branches from the Same Tree.” 2018. https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24988.

Thank you again for making these resources publicly available!

This is a great overview of the LandSat Program and the historic contributions to our environmental and changing planet. Thanks for your work and support of teachers and students (especially K12) over the years. Let's get into the schools!!

Thanks for showcasing this project—I thought your video did well in highlighting the outreach programs associated with the work.  As I watched the video and considered the various parts of the presentation, I wondered across a few themes that I hoped you might describe a bit. I try to summarize them below: 

(1) Could you share a bit about the empirical designs for the work? In other words, what did you examine in developing your programs and what sort of measures and outcomes did you observe. I ask this because these seems to be connections to data science (a recent interest of my own) and this could be a challenge in informal learning environments—I wondered if there were any connections that I could learn from in your implementation at the intersection of public engagement and research. 

(2) your DIY spectrometer seems amazing!  Are the instructions for building this tool available on your site.  Could you summarize component parts in accessible terms for folks interested in building their own low cost portable device?

(3) I noticed you implemented programming in a number of contexts.  Could you share a bit more about which those were and perhaps why the sites you chose were important.  As I think about community labs as informal science learning environments I hoped to learn from your rationale—as to inform my understanding of how these nascent spaces might be important from the perspective of the research team. In other words, what sites did you implement your outreach programs and why?

In any event, thanks for the incredible work in raising public awareness about planet conditions and the power of satellites in informing policy, public decision-making, etc.!

This video is such a celebration- of emerging technologies, of NASA science, and of planet Earth! Great presentation- I'll want to download this and share with the 2022 cohort of SEES Earth System Explorers!

Excellent overview of the AmericaView and Landsat program. Oh, my goodness, I was just in Lompoc for a visit and recall seeing the wall mural but did not stop! Is it possible to have included a URL or the like for interested folks to follow up? I have known about and used some Landsat data for over 10-years with Native American students to engage them in STEM, but I (and the students) were a bit overwhelmed trying to access and understand that data. It is nice to see that NASA has not given up on engaging the public in understanding the technology. Where do you think Landsat data and technology will fit in the next 25-50 years for use by the general public?

Greetings Peder and all,

Wonderful video! I was especially excited about the segment on STELLA. We have been working with Paul Mirel and others at Goddard on native habit restoration and exploring using STELLA and GLOBE... I wonder if we could involve LandSAT and your project as well?  My email is gknezek@gmail.com... would love to talk!

Great project!

Inspiring work here! It adds to my dismay that geoscience continues to be a "discovered major" in many universities, and folks are not knocking down the doors to join in. We certainly need broader participation. Recent research points to meaningful (altruistic) work as the leading driver of interest in geoscience study at the undergrad level. I wonder if there are any efforts by the team to focus on environmental justice matters so as to shine light on the relevance of geoscience for many historically excluded communities?