This grant is for advancing K-12 STEM education, primarily for high school, leveraging NASA’s unique contributions. The NASA Office of Education seeks proposals for innovative instructional materials and experiences engaging learners in NASA STEM content. This grant aims to inspire interest in NASA-related careers, enhance student academics, and improve educators’ abilities. Proposals should develop new, replicable STEM learning approaches, addressing gender differences and low-performing schools. They must provide research-grounded activities with measurable outcomes, build educational linkages from K-12 to higher education, and offer training to improve secondary STEM teaching, strengthening the educational pipeline.
Opportunity ID: 54511
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | NNG10ZNE008C |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | FY 2010 NASA K-12 Cooperative Agreements Notice (CAN) |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement Grant |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 00.000 — Not Elsewhere Classified |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | May 11, 2010 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 19, 2010 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 19, 2010 |
| Archive Date: | Aug 18, 2010 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | – |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | Proposals will be accepted from only from lead organizations including U.S. school districts, state-based education leadership, and not-for-profit education organizations that support secondary education. Community colleges, universities, industry, education-related companies, and other institutions may apply through partnership with the lead organization. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | NASA Headquarters |
| Description: | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Office of Education is releasing this NASA Cooperative Agreements Notice (CAN) for proposals. The K-12 CAN effort seeks proposals that incorporate innovative approaches for development and delivery of instructional materials and experiences that capture the interest of learners and actively involve them in relevant, NASA STEM-themed content applications. The instructional materials and experiences should support secondary level teaching and learning, with a particular emphasis on high school education. Each funded proposal is expected to leverage NASAs unique contributions in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to inspire young people to consider the importance of developing a possible interest in NASArelated careers, and/or to enhance students academic experiences and/or to improve educators abilities to engage and stimulate their students. Develop, promote, or utilize new, innovative, and replicable approaches to improving STEM learning and instruction; especially related to gender differences and low performing schools; Provide experiences and activities with measurable learning outcomes that are grounded in education research or utilize STEM supported evidence, approaches, techniques, and/or innovative STEM tools with measurable learning outcomes; Build STEM linkages and connections focused on high school but linking back to elementary and middle schools and forward to community colleges and universities to strengthen the linkages between education, research and best practices; and Provide training and experiences that improve secondary educators abilities to engage their students in STEM learning and enhance teaching and learning in STEM content areas. Two-Step Proposal Process: Notice of Intent/Preliminary Proposals (NOI/PP) and Invited Full Proposals NASA Education will use a two-step process for reviewing and selecting proposals. Proposers will submit a short Notice of Intent and Preliminary Proposal (NOI/PP) that briefly describes the work to be performed. NASA content to be featured, audiences to be reached, need, innovative approaches to be employed, estimated costs, and summary of evidence supporting the methods, techniques, and tools to be used. NOI/PPs will be reviewed internally by the NASA Office of Education and the NASA Mission Directorates, and the authors of the most promising ideas will be asked to submit full proposals. The NOI/PPs will be due on June 01, 2010, with final invited full proposals due on July 19, 2010. Step l: Notice of Intent/Preliminary Proposal (Required) Organizations planning to submit a proposal in response to this CAN are required to submit a NOI/PP. NOI/PPs must be submitted through NSPIRES, by the AOR, Grants.gov does not have this feature. Step-1 Proposers can use either NSPIRES (http://nspires.nasaprs.com) or Grants.gov ( http://www.grants.gov/) for proposals submission. All proposers, team members, and agency officials must be registered before proposal submission with NSPIRES regardless of the electronic submission system used. NSPIRES remains the only system through which a Step-1 proposal can be continued as a Step-2 proposal. Step-2 proposals must be submitted through NSPIRES. The NOI/PP is limited to no more than five (5) pages and must be in 10 point font size. |
| Link to Additional Information: | Announcement Document |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Dr. Antoinette C. Wells
National Project Manager NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Email:Antoinette.C.Wells@nasa.gov |
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