For the fourth year in a row, the American Association of Physics Teachers, a collaborator on the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (HEAT), selected eight new educators to serve as ambassadors for heliophysics education. Meeting in Boulder, CO, from July 14-17, 2025, these teachers met to work through AAPT’s lessons that bring physics content to life in the context of NASA heliophysics missions and the Framework for Heliophysics Education .
美国物理教师协会（NASA 太阳物理学教育激活团队 (HEAT) 的合作者）连续第四年选出八位新教育工作者担任太阳物理学教育大使。这些教师于 2025 年 7 月 14 日至 17 日在科罗拉多州博尔德举行会议，共同学习 AAPT 的课程，这些课程在 NASA 太阳物理学任务和太阳物理学教育框架的背景下将物理内容带入生活。
The Ambassador program began in 2022 as an effort to identify highly-motivated secondary and tertiary educators who could encourage other educators to integrate NASA content into their teaching. The impact is clear – a handful of Ambassadors in the past few years have joined the program directly as a result of previous educators.
大使计划于 2022 年启动，旨在寻找积极主动的中学和高等教育工作者，鼓励其他教育工作者将 NASA 的内容融入到他们的教学中。其影响是显而易见的——过去几年中，一些大使因之前的教育工作者而直接加入了该计划。
New Jersey high school physics and astronomy teacher Erin Bontempo first learned about the program at the spring meeting of the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA). She attended a workshop led by Hava Turkakin and Francesca Viale, 2023 and 2024 Ambassadors and community college faculty. In a 60-minute interactive session, Hava and Francesca shared brief snapshots of four of AAPT’s lessons, connecting heliophysics to topics traditionally taught in core science courses, such as motion, light, and magnetism.
新泽西州高中物理和天文学教师艾琳·邦坦波 (Erin Bontempo) 在国家科学教学协会 (NSTA) 春季会议上首次了解到该项目。她参加了由 2023 年和 2024 年大使 Hava Turkakin 和 Francesca Viale 以及社区学院教师主持的研讨会。在 60 分钟的互动会议中，哈瓦和弗朗西斯卡分享了 AAPT 四个课程的简短快照，将太阳物理学与传统核心科学课程中教授的主题（例如运动、光和磁）联系起来。
Erin was intrigued by the lessons she saw: “When I began teaching astronomy eight years ago, I knew little about space. Ever since, I have been an avid student, constantly reading, researching, and in awe of the current NASA missions. I often look for courses to take to further my knowledge, and I feel like this is a perfect fit. When I attended the NSTA conference session on HEAT, it just clicked. The lessons that they brought using real data are the kind of exposure students need.”
艾琳对她所看到的课程很感兴趣：“八年前，当我开始教授天文学时，我对太空知之甚少。从那时起，我一直是一名热心的学生，不断阅读、研究，并对当前的 NASA 任务感到敬畏。我经常寻找课程来加深我的知识，我觉得这是一个完美的选择。当我参加 NSTA 关于 HEAT 的会议时，我就觉得很有趣。他们使用真实数据带来的课程正是学生需要的接触机会。”
Ultimately, Erin was invited to be an Ambassador herself, along with seven other educators, to take part in the summit experience in Boulder. In addition to learning about heliophysics with the AAPT leadership team, the group visited the National Space Weather Prediction Center to hear first-hand how NASA, NOAA, and various federal and international agencies work to understand and respond to our changing Sun.
最终，艾琳本人被邀请担任大使，与其他七位教育工作者一起参加博尔德的峰会体验。除了与 AAPT 领导团队一起学习太阳物理学之外，该小组还参观了国家空间天气预报中心，亲身了解 NASA、NOAA 以及各个联邦和国际机构如何努力了解和应对不断变化的太阳。
Since the program began, 32 Ambassadors have been identified and participated in the multi-day professional learning experience, followed by a year of leadership and outreach to other educators. Beyond their own classrooms, they have reached educators across 36 local, state, and national events, holding extended workshops with nearly 500 other teachers.
自该计划开始以来，已确定 32 名大使并参与了为期多天的专业学习体验，随后是一年的领导和与其他教育工作者的外展活动。除了自己的课堂之外，他们还接触了 36 个地方、州和国家活动中的教育工作者，并与近 500 名其他教师举办了扩展研讨会。
In addition to AAPT’s lessons , the AAPT/NASA HEAT Resources webpage also provides the names and states for all ambassadors as well as the schedule and topics for the upcoming ‘Physics in an Astronomy Context’ series of free online mini-workshops being planned for the 2025 Fall semester.
除了 AAPT 课程外，AAPT/NASA HEAT 资源网页还提供了所有大使的姓名和状态，以及计划于 2025 年秋季学期举办的“天文学背景下的物理”系列免费在线迷你研讨会的日程安排和主题。
NASA HEAT is part of NASA’s Science Activation Portfolio. Learn more about how Science Activation connects NASA science experts, real content, and experiences with community leaders to do science in ways that activate minds and promote deeper understanding of our world and beyond: https://science.nasa.gov/learn/about-science-activation/
NASA HEAT 是 NASA 科学激活产品组合的一部分。详细了解 Science Activation 如何将 NASA 科学专家、真实内容和经验与社区领袖联系起来，以激活思维并促进对我们的世界及其他世界更深入了解的方式开展科学研究：https://science.nasa.gov/learn/about-science-activation/