Tom Sarko's Home Page
Course Information:
Take the Space Flight Quiz!
7th
Grade Physical Science
6th Grade
Earth Science
Virtual Field Trips
Yellowstone and Grand Tetons
Field Methods Course
Mars Images (single frames from
digital-8 camcorder videos)
Mars
Observations, August and September, 2003
Observable Objects In Our Galaxy
and Beyond
Tom Sarko's Solar System Ambassador
Website
Space Art from "Novaspace" in Tucson,
Arizona
Venus Transit, Tuesday, June 8,
2004
Yellowstone
and Grand Teton National Parks, 6/17-21/'04
Tom Sarko's Powered Parachute
Belle Glade
from
the Air, August 17 and 21, 2004
Powered Parachute Over Belle Glade, 3/6/'05
Powered Parachute at Belle Glade, 6/29/2005
My "Baker's Dozen" of Space Web Site Choices for Students, Parents, and
Teachers:
SPACE.com
Spaceflight
Now
Kennedy
Space Center Home Page
NASA Spacelink - An
Aeronautics and Space Resource for Educators
Astronomical
Society of the Palm Beaches
FLORIDA TODAY Space News
Space Explorers, Inc. - Marslink
The
Planetary Society RedRover, RedRover Headquarters
SLOOH
SpaceWeather.com
National
Air and Space Museum
Heavens-Above
Space
Telescope Science Institute
Web Sites for Some of My Other Interests:
Powered Parachute Video
Cloud
Web Sites
GLOBE
Program
Florida EXPLORES!
Babylon
5
Battlestar Galactica
Star
Trek
Counting
Crows
Dave
Matthews Band
Foo Fighters
Incubus
Eric
Johnson
Lifehouse
Linkin Park
Pat Metheny Group
A
Perfect Circle
The
Rippingtons
Vertical
Horizon
Boomerangs
Major League Baseball
Powered
Parachutes
Excalibur
National Honor Society for Excellence in Science
Bulldog Astronomical Society
Photo Pages:
Gainesville
Air Show, 9/25/'05
Gainesville Air
Show, 9/25/'05
Gainesville Air Show, 9/25/'05
1903 Wright Flyer, October 15,
2005
SpaceShipOne at the
National Air and Space Museum, 10/15/05
National Air and Space Museum, October 15,
2005
NASM's Udvar-Hazy Center,
October, 16, 2005
Military Aircraft at the
Udvar-Hazy Center, October 16, 2005
Space Hangar at the
Udvar-Hazy Center, October 16, 2005
My Hurricane Wilma Experience
Stuart Air Show, November 13,
2005
Flying Near Belle Glade, December 3 and 4,
2005
Green Bay Packers vs.
Detroit Lions,
December 11, 2005
Sport Aviation Expo, Sebring, Florida,
January 12, 2006
New Horizons Mission,
Launched 1/19/'06
Diana Sarko's PBDS Visit, February 17, 2006
7th Grade at Gumbo Limbo
Nature Center, 2/23/'06
2006 Discovery Days,
March 8
2006 Discovery Days, March 9
2006
Discovery Days, March 10
2006 Arizona Trip, March 19 - 26
2006 Florida
International Air Show - April 1
2006
Florida International Air Show - Static Displays
2006 Florida International
Air Show - The Thunderbirds
2006 7th Grade Class Trip,
Tampa, April 7
2006 Sun 'n' Fun Fly-In,
Lakeland, April 8
2006 GOES N Launch, Wednesday,
May 24
2006 Grand Tetons and Yellowstone: Animals
2006 Grand Teton National Park, June 20 -
23
2006 Yellowstone National Park, June 23 -
24
2006 Milwaukee Air Expo, July 15
2006 Milwaukee Air Expo, July 15: The
Thunderbirds
Bryce Canyon, August 10 - 26, 2006
Bryce Canyon Astronomy
Bryce Canyon
Animals
Cedar Breaks National Monument, August 13,
2006
Zion National Park, August 15, 2006
Capitol Reef National Park, August 19, 2006
Arches National Park, August 20, 2006
Canyonlands National Park and Dead Horse
Point State Park, August 20, 2006
Antelope Canyon, August 22, 2006
Grand
Canyon North Rim, August 22, 2006
Kodachrome and Coral Pink Sand Dunes State
Parks and Red Canyon
Flying in Belle Glade, 9/30/'06
2006 Florida Association of Science
Teachers Conference, Gainesville
2006 Girls' Varsity Basketball Team Trip
to Gainesville
2006 Stuart Air Show
2006 Stuart Air
Show - Static Displays
Manatees at
Blue Spring State Park, 11/25/'06
2006
PBDA Girls' Varsity Basketball Team
Diana
Sarko's University of Florida Commencement, 12/15/'06
Cedar
Key, UF Butterfly Pavilion, Mars Walk, Bat House, 12/16-18/'06
2007
Capital One Bowl, January 1st: Wisconsin - 17, Arkansas - 14
O'Connell
Center and Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, 1/20/'07
6th Grade
Field Trip to Museum of Discovery and Science, 1/25/'07
6th Grade at
Kennedy Space Center, February 17 & 18, 2007
Delta II /
Themis Launch, February 17, 2007
Kennedy Space Center,
February 17, 2007
Kennedy Space Center,
February 18, 2007
7th Grade at
Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, 2/22/'07
7th Grade
Class Trip to SeaWorld, February 23 & 24, 2007
2007
Discovery Days, March 7 - "Tampa, Mars and Beyond"
2007
Discovery Days, March 7 and 8 - "Tampa, Mars and Beyond"
2007 Arizona
Trip, March 11 - 18
2007 Arizona
Trip, March 11 - 18
Valiant Air
Command Warbird Museum, Titusville
2007 Sun 'n' Fun
Fly-In, Lakeland, Florida, April 21
2007 Sun 'n' Fun Fly-In,
Lakeland, Florida, April 21
Launch
of Space Shuttle Atlantis on Mission STS-117, 6/8/'07
Mesa
Verde National Park, July 21, 2007
Chaco
Culture National Historical Park, July 22, 2007
Canyon de
Chelly National Monument, July 23, 2007
Lower
Antelope Canyon, July 24, 2007
Trip
to Glen Canyon N.R.A. and Natural Bridges N.M., 8/7-12/'07
2007
Stuart Air Show, Saturday, November 10
2007
ESPNU Women's Basketball Invitational, Thursday, 11/15
Launch
of Atlantis, Mission STS-122,
February 7, 2008
Total Lunar Eclipse,
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Launch of Endeavour, Mission STS-123,
March 11, 2008
2008 Discovery Days - March 12, Fantasy of
Flight
2008
Arizona Trip, March 22-29
2008 Arizona
Trip, Page 2
2008 EAA Sun
'n' Fun Fly-In, Saturday, April 12
Launch
of Discovery, Mission STS-124, May 31, 2008
Yerkes Observatory,
Williams Bay, Wisconsin, June 14, 2008
2008 Summer
Fireworks, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Sudekum
Planetarium, Nashville, July 18, 2008
2008
EAA AirVenture, Monday, 7/28: Air Show
2008
EAA AirVenture, Monday, 7/28: Staic Displays
Rocky
Mountain National Park, August 4-7, 2008
Colorado
National Monument, August 8, 2008
Glen
Canyon NRA and Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP, 8/9-12/'08
Museum of
Aviation, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, August 19, 2008
My Background:
I've been a science teacher and aerospace
educator for 33 years. My experience
includes two years in public schools, two
years in parochial schools, two years as an Aerospace
Education Specialist in NASA's Aerospace
Education Services Program ("Spacemobile"), and
twenty-seven years at Palm Beach Day Academy,
Palm Beach, FL., where I currently teach junior
high science, including aerospace curriculum.
I also served, for ten years, as a Regional Resource
Person for the Smithsonian Institution's
National Air and Space Museum and as a resource agent
in "SPICA" (the Support Program for
Instructional Competency in Astronomy) for the
Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics. I
have begun my fourth year as a "Solar System
Ambassador" for NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and I work part time
at Kennedy Space
Center's Educator
Resource Center and "Exploration Station". My hobbies
include canoeing,
bicycle
riding, astronomy,
and flying my powered
parachute.
To Contact Me . . .
tomsdianas@att.net
OR Palm
Beach Day Academy
241 Seaview Avenue
Palm Beach, FL. 33480
(561)655-1188, ext. 163
Fax: (561)655-5794
tsarko@pbds.org