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Hampton, Va –­ A collaboration between the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) and global education company, Promethean is bringing the latest NASA education content to teachers and learners worldwide.
 
New pages available on Promethean Planet’s website community feature content developed for NASA and middle and high school educators by the Center for Integrative STEM Education (CISE) at NIA. Designed to help teachers bring excitement into middle and high school classrooms, the materials include teacher professional development resources and lesson plans for both elementary and secondary education, images for download, interactive activities, award-winning videos, animations and much more.
 
The content can be accessed directly at:
http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en-us/resources/partner-resources/nia/nia.aspx
 
The collaboration is part of NIA’s ongoing effort to promote the development of a well-educated workforce in science, technology, engineering and mathematics for NASA and the nation.
 
Becky Jaramillo, Senior Educator at NIA and education lead for the project remarked, “We are thrilled to work with the Promethean Planet team to bring NASA resources into such a dynamic learning environment.” She noted, “Teachers in the Hampton Roads, Virginia region have told us how excited they are to have well-thought out lessons at their fingertips and how this platform helps them bring NASA content into a more interactive classroom.”
 
Selda Ziya, Head of Partner Editorial at Promethean Planet added, “We are delighted to work with NIA and NASA to advance STEM education. By integrating the content into an interactive learning environment, teachers will have new ways to get students engaged and excited about studying core science concepts.”  
 
Headquartered in the U.K. and U.S., Promethean’s interactive classroom solutions are used in more than 850,000 classrooms around the world. Created for teachers, Promethean Planet is the world’s largest online interactive whiteboard community and is used by over one million educators, in more than 150 countries who gather daily to collaborate, exchange ideas, share best practice, and browse nearly 38,000 free and publisher-supplied resources.

NIA is a non-profit research and graduate education institute headquartered in Hampton, Va. It was formed by a consortium of research universities to ensure a national capability to support NASA’s mission by expanding collaboration with academia and leveraging expertise inside and outside NASA. The institute’s graduate program offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the fields of engineering and science through its university partners: Georgia Tech, Hampton University, North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina State University, the University of Maryland, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Old Dominion University, and the College of William & Mary.
 
 
Visit Promethean Planet at:
www.prometheanplanet.com/en-us/
 
For more information about the National Institute of Aerospace, go to:
www.nianet.org
 
For more about NASA visit:
www.nasa.gov