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My morning commute [PODCAST] Artemis II on the Cover of TIME and Pandora on the Hunt for Other Worlds (Are We There Yet?, 3 Feb 2026)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1zDz2gxj68VOfl7xS97bwk?si=3nW20TdOSbml6oMHfw06dg&t=16&pi=OxSW2tUPSTSNh

#SpaceEd #nasa #Artemis #arewethereyet #PodcastRecc #podcast

Added to my #WonderLinks page: [VIDEO] Artemis Science: Visualizing NASA’s Next Lunar Flyby (6 min)

https://www.youtNCedcom/watch?v=wdF4wyTarrI

Also added to my “VIDEOS: SPACE EXPLORATION - MOON / MARS HABITATION” page:

https://lessons.wesfryer.com/lessons/minecraft-mars/mars-videos

https://lessons.wesfryer.com/wonder-links

#SpaceEd #stem #NCed #curiosity #space #CodingMars

Our students are like most middle schoolers: they love learning about space, astronauts, and space exploration!

#SpaceEd #STEM

Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Picks Up New Skills (NASA, 1 August 2025)
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/marking-13-years-on-mars-nasas-curiosity-picks-up-new-skills/

#edtechSR #SpaceExploration #NASA #SpaceEd

Check out activities, videos and resources from Shelly Fryer’s “Rocket Camp” this week:
https://classroom.shellyfryer.com/rocket-camp

#stem #SpaceEd #nasa #rockets #SpaceExploration

Image features a promotional graphic for a NASA-themed summer camp focused on rocketry. It includes the text "ROCKET CAMP" prominently displayed, dates for the camp, and a brief description of activities for participants in grades 2-5. The right

Day 2 of “Rocket 🚀 Camp” with Shelly Fryer! Elementary age students are building foam rockets today. Shelly is “in her happy place” teaching students STEM engineering who are in “The Artemis Generation!”

https://summer.providenceday.org/dates-rates/summer-camp-details/~board/camps/post/ideas-engineering-and-design-builders-lab-1736792925974

#SpaceED #stem #Nasa #rockets

A woman gestures while explaining the SLS rocket in front of a presentation screen. The screen displays a diagram of the rocket and images of students involved in the Artemis program. On the table are various educational materials and tools.

My summer camp for rising 4th and 5th graders this week, “Coding in Minecraft - Mars Outpost Mission” is going great!

https://www.astrokidsclub.org/

More info about my middle school unit “Coding Mars” is on:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/lessons/minecraft-mars

#stem #coding #Minecraft #MinecraftEDU #SpaceEd #nasa #Mars

Promotional graphic for "Coding in Minecraft: Mars Outpost Mission" by Astro Kids Club. The image includes a gear and code symbol in the word "Coding," a green "Minecraft" title, and red "Mars Outpost Mission" text. The center features a MakeCode block coding example, with a red Mars planet illustration on the left, a Minecraft grass block on the right, and a Mars rover and rocket icon at the bottom. The website www.AstroKidsClub.org is displayed at the bottom.

Please share this link about the EIGHT (STEM / coding / design / engineering summer camps Shelly Fryer and I are teaching in June and July 2025 through "Summer at Providence Day School!"
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/summer-2025

#stem #coding #design #Minecraft #MinecraftEDU #SpaceEd

Promotional graphic for Summer 2025 STEM Camps at Providence Day School, featuring images and descriptions of various camps: Engineering, Lego Exploration, Rocket Lab, Video Game Coding, Minecraft, and Web Design. Includes photos of Mrs. Fryer and Dr Fryer

Check out my new blog post, “Martian Perchlorates in Minecraft Education”
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/04/12/martian-perchlorates-in-minecraft-education/

#coding #CodingMars #chemistry #stem #teaching #SpaceEd #Mars #agriculture

A pixel art scene depicting an astronaut kneeling and planting a green sprout in a Martian landscape. In the background, there is a geodesic dome structure and distant mountains under an orange sky.

Intuitive Machine’s lunar landing goes sideways again (The Verge, 7 March 2025)
https://www.theverge.com/news/625818/athena-moon-lander-intuitive-machines-nasa-sideways

#SpaceEd

Now Shelly and I are virtually attending the #SEEC2025 closing keynote LIVE!

“Saturday Keynote- The James Webb Telescope Mission”

https://sites.grenadine.co/sites/spacecenter/en/space-exploration-educators-conferenence/schedule/9928/Saturday%20Keynote-%20The%20James%20Webb%20Telescope%20Mission%20%28Virtual%20Viewing%20only%29?platform=

#SpaceEd #JWST #nasa #stem

A large, yellow hexagonal satellite mirror is being prepared in a clean room. Several technicians in white protective suits are working around it, while the facility features high ceilings and industrial equipment.

Another great #SEEC2025 virtual session this morning: “Bringing Space to Life: Space Colonization Units Implemented in the STEM Classroom” by Annamarie Vandrevala! (For middle and high school) I added this to a “Unit Inspirations” page of my “Coding Mars” project and lesson series:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/lessons/minecraft-mars/unit-inspirations

#stem #Mars #SpaceEd #nasa #rover #coding

This morning attending #SEEC2025 virtually I learned about “Depot Caching Strategy” and so much more in “Mission Cognition: A Mission to Mars” by Iowa educators Ben Olsen and Ronald Reinhart! Check out my notes with links to their GREAT resources: https://wfryer.me/seec2025

#stem #Mars #SpaceEd #nasa #rover #coding

Image features a welcome message for "Mission to Mars," alongside an illustration of Mars. It includes a QR code and a prompt to download the Blockly app, with a web link for additional resources. The background appears starry.

I updated my Space Education #SpaceEd resources website:
https://space.wesfryer.com/

Among other updates I added a link to a Wakelet of space exploration links:
https://wakelet.com/wake/IVLOluKWFdVIJx9KXgEnl

#edtech #edtechSR #coding

A view of Earth as seen from the Moon, with a lunar surface in the foreground and a dark backdrop of space. Earth appears as a small, colorful sphere in the distance.

#SkyTour #astronomy [PODCAST] “Cassiopeia & Company” for December 2024 (although it is mistakenly titled November)
https://pca.st/episode/8717c940-2ec8-4597-b966-d918b8feb3e3

#Science #SpaceEd #solstice

Check out Ben Honeycutt’s 3 min tutorial [VIDEO] for middle school students creating “habitat domes on Mars in Minecraft Education!
https://youtu.be/hC6BKuEapIQ?si=tKShINYuxILRGNgd

Learn more about my own “Minecraft Mars” coding unit:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/lessons/minecraft-mars

#stem #MinecraftEDU #Minecraft #coding #SpaceEd

A voxel-style astronaut stands on a red, rocky terrain resembling Mars, with distant mountains and a celestial body visible in the sky. Scattered structures suggest a futuristic settlement.

Shelly and I just watched this AWESOME YouTube video together: “A Space Journey with NASA Astronaut Christina H. Koch” by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (from Jan 2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLTX-KJNXhQ

Christina Koch spent almost a year on ISS and has been selected for the upcoming NASA Artemis 2 mission. She is from North Carolina!

I’m going to show some of this video to my #stem students as a class #WonderLink :-)

#SpaceEd #curiosity #space #exploration #nasa #Artemis #OverviewEffect

Mars and Jupiter continue to captivate my senses of wonder and curiosity in the morning, adorning our North Carolina early skies (about 6 am in the attached photo) to the southeast at about 70 degrees of inclination.

I’m excited to share both the iOS app “Night Sky” and the NASA monthly video series, “What’s Up?” with my middle schoolers this year!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/night-sky/id475772902

https://science.nasa.gov/skywatching/whats-up

#WonderLink #edtechSR #SpaceEd #curiosity #Mars #Jupiter #SolarSystem