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NASA Shares Knowledge Through the Learning Technologies Project

PROMOTING THE GROWTH OF A NATIONAL information infrastructure using the vast amount of information acquired by NASA since its creation is the goal of the agency's Learning Technologies Project (LTP). This abundant suite of Internet projects helps teachers and students explore NASA resources and learn about NASA missions.

LTP provides on-line resources and activities from a number of disciplines, including remote access to a telescope over the Internet, software tools to manage the Internet in the classroom and a simulation to teach aerodynamics basics.

"Sharing NASA" on-line—interactive projects available from LTP's Quest server—brings the opportunity to communicate with NASA scientists and researchers and to experience the excitement of science as it is happening. Through Quest, home of NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative, teachers can interact with other schools already on-line, explore "links" to other NASA educational resources and access information about educational grants. Students learn that science is real in the everyday world, not something done in laboratories only. Visit http://www.quest.arc.nasa.gov/interactive

LTP is broken down into five sectors that implement on-line resources and databases to provide an accessible foundation for educating teachers and students and to encourage teachers to further integrate this knowledge into the classroom. The five categories, accessible via the Internet, are K-12 Outreach Centers, K-14 Aeronautics Projects, Remote Sensing Public Access Center (RSPAC), Digital Library Technology Projects (DLT) and Special Projects.

LTP's Special Projects are designed to encourage the development of innovative applications of Earth and space science remote-sensing data. By stimulating broad public use, via the Internet, of the databases maintained by NASA and other agencies, the program encourages schools, businesses and citizens to access and use Earth and space science data.

LTP is a component of the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) program, a government campaign that supports accelerating the development, application and transfer of high-performance technologies to the U.S. engineering and science communities. Visit http://www.learn.ivv.nasa.gov

For more information, visit http://education.nasa.gov
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