Tracy Wicker
science teacher
Cache Public School
Sessions in which Tracy Wicker attends
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
- SEEC 101
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater
- 7:30 AM - 7:45 AM | 15 minutes
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- Keynotes Session- Vanessa Wyche
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater
- 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Keynote
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Classroom Lasers Part 1
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Classroom Lasers Part 1 will be focused on basic information on lasers. It will show and utilize many online applets that can be useful classroom a...
- Session
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- What's Math Got to Do With It? Making Critical Connections in the Mathematics Classroom
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- ERC
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Are you looking for authentic problems to promote understanding of 9-12 mathematical content? Explorations with data gathered from the Parker...
- Session
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- Classroom Lasers Part 2
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Classroom Lasers Part 2 will be using simple lasers pointers in several hands-on activities. These activities will demonstrate refraction, reflecti...
- Session
3:45 PM
3:45 PM
- Tracking Satellites, Orbits, & Modeling!
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Be empowered and ignite excitement with your students through the lens of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite tracking as it applies to physics, art...
- Session
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
- Keynote- Dr. Alan Stern
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater
- 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | 1 hour
- Dr. Stern is a planetary scientist, author and the principal investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. He will p...
- Keynote
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Modeling the Expanding Universe in the Classroom
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Inspiration
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- The Expanding Universe - a teacher resource by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Activities explore how scientists use emission spectra ...
- Session
11:15 AM
11:15 AM
- Fluid Dynamics and the Physics of Flight
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 1
- 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Fluid Dynamics! Good demos, great labs, and spectacular paper airplanes?This is a hands-on presentation, so get ready to have some fun. Instruction...
- Session
12:15 PM
12:15 PM
- Coding a Jr. Botball robot using C++
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 2
- 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Participants will learn basic coding, using C++, to code a Jr. Botball robot to complete introductory challenges. Participants will be introd...
- Session
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- Which Rocks Made This Sand? Or What Happened to the Rocks
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Discovery
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Some day, our students will be looking at the sand and soil on Mars, on asteroids, and on other distant bodies in space. Having an opportunity to s...
- Session
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- The Physics of Light Using Light Emitting Diodes
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Participants will be shown how to do hands on activities using light emitting diodes. Including the energy of the photon, diffraction pattern...
- Session
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
- Lunch 2 Saturday
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronaut Gallery- Lunch 2
- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour