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<div class='col-md-12'> <h1 class='page_title'> Education </h1> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='container offset_container'> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-12'> <div class='raw'> <div class='content_box'> <p> IPAC has expertise and experience in planning, developing and implementing a wide range of formal and informal educational programs. These include programs for US-based K-12 , community college formal education, programs for life-long learners, informal education in museums, planetaria, community events and more.</p> <p> IPAC also specializes in developing educational plans and programs for international partners.</p> <p> These activities have been developed for a number of large science projects including NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and other NASA missions, as well as international science projects such as the Thirty Meter Telescope.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='container'> <div class='row page_section'> <div class='col-md-6'> <div class='content_box raw'> <div class="image_container"> <a alt="NITARP 2017 Jan AAS " href="http://nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu" title="NITARP 2017 Jan AAS "><img alt="NITARP 2017 Jan AAS " src="/system/media_files/binaries/80/original/nitarp-97113e122e69b352566df11d13363682.png?1530836970" style="width:215px;margin-bottom:20px" title="NITARP 2017 Jan AAS " /></a></div> <p> The NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (<a href="http://nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu">NITARP</a>), is an IPAC program that gets teachers involved in authentic astronomical research. We partner small groups of largely high school educators with a mentor professional astronomer for an original research project.</p> <p> The educators incorporate the experience into their classrooms and share their experience with other teachers. The program runs January through January. Applications are available annually in May and due in September.</p> <div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> <div class='col-md-6'> <div class='content_box raw'> <div class="image_container"> <a alt="CoolCosmos" href="http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu" title="CoolCosmos"><img alt="CoolCosmos" src="/system/media_files/binaries/10/original/cool_cosmos_6-1f9788328c56d96cf34a3e3a5ed2263e.png?1530836705" style="width:215px;margin-bottom:20px" title="CoolCosmos" /></a></div> <p style="clear:both"> The <a href="http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu">CoolCosmos</a> website was established at IPAC as a public web portal to explore the many facets of the world and universe as seen through the marvels of infrared light. CoolCosmos contains education resources for all NASA- and IPAC-involved infrared missions, including the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), Herschel, Planck, the 2-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS), the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), and Euclid.</p> <p> Cool Cosmos provides content for educators, students and life-long learners.</p> <div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='container'> <div class='row page_section'> <div class='col-md-12'> <a class='offset_anchor' name='curriculum'></a> <div class='content_box raw'> <div class="image_container right"> <a alt="Education resources at CoolCosmos" href="http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/education_resources" title="Education resources at CoolCosmos"><img alt="Education resources at CoolCosmos" src="/system/media_files/binaries/7/small/education_resources.png?1486755326" title="Education resources at CoolCosmos" /></a> <p class="caption"> Education resources at CoolCosmos</p> </div> <h4> Curriculum Development and Educator Resources</h4> <p> The IPAC Communications and Education (ICE) team has developed infrared lesson plans, posters, printouts, outreach materials and compiled  links to education other resources on various websites for IPAC-related projects including:</p> <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu/resource_category/4-For-the-classroom">NITARP resources for the classroom</a></p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/education_resources">Lesson plans, posters and resource links on CoolCosmos</a></p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/search/spitzer/">Educational resources related to Spitzer at JPL's Spaceplace website</a></p> </li> </ul> <div class='clearfix'></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class='footer_box'> <div class='container'> <div class='row'> <div class='col-md-4'> <div class='footer_group affiliates'> <a href="http://www.ipac.caltech.edu" alt="Infrared Processing and Analysis Center" title="Infrared Processing and Analysis Center"><img alt="Ipac" src="/assets/ipac-4c1a46bd7efc14226bcc882880fc2871.png" /></a> <a href="http://www.caltech.edu" alt="California Institute of Technology" title="California Institute of Technology"><img alt="Caltech" src="/assets/caltech-8ad9780e54d034d665af4a3dbd37d62c.png" /></a> </div> </div> <div class='col-md-8 footer_wrapper'> <div class='row'> <div class='col-xs-6 col-md-3'> <div class='footer_group'> <p class='list_header'> Policies </p> <ul class='page_links'> <li> <i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i> <a href="/page/privacy">Privacy Policy</a> </li> <li> <i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i> <a href="/page/image-use-policy">Image Use Policy</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class='col-xs-6 col-md-3'> <div class='footer_group'> <p class='list_header'> Get in Touch </p> <ul class='page_links'> <li> <i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i> <a href="/page/contact#visitor-information">Visit IPAC</a> </li> <li> <i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i> <a href="/page/contact">Contact Us</a> </li> <li> <i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i> <a href="/staff">People</a> </li> <li> <i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i> <a href="/page/opportunities">Job Opportunities</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class='col-xs-6 col-md-3'> <div class='footer_group'> <p class='list_header'> Stay in Touch </p> <ul class='page_links'> <li> <i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/caltechipac/">Facebook</a> </li> <li> <i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i> <a href="https://twitter.com/caltechipac">Twitter</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script> //<![CDATA[ (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-35868239-14', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); //]]> </script> <script src="/assets/application-dd3d068431ffda3da184aa851ca157d3.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script> //<![CDATA[ $(document).ready(function() { setTimeout(function(){ levelSections(); }, 25) }); //]]> </script> </body> </html>