Activity
NASA

Feel the Heat

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Heat water up like a NASA engineer. Using the engineering design process, investigators create a system to trap and move heat through a water-filled tube. Designers participate in a post-activity discussion that highlights the role of...
Activity
NASA

Exploring Exoplanets with Kepler

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Calculate the movement and properties of planets like professional astronomers! Scholars use Kepler's third law to find Mercury and Venus's distance from the sun. Using changes in brightness of distant stars and Kepler's third law,...
Activity
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Teach Engineering

Edible Rovers

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The good thing about building this rover is you get to eat it afterwards. Pairs determine rover parts they want to include in their design based upon their cost and usefulness. The teams design their rovers, build them from edible...
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Teach Engineering

Edible Rovers (High School)

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Design and build a rover ... then eat it? This activity has groups of two design and build Mars rovers. The teams determine what instruments they want to include with their rover and plan a budget. They calculate the cost of the body of...
Unit Plan
NASA

Astronomy Mission Module

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Yes, scientists say, there is other life in our solar system! And the best place to look is on Europa, a moon of Jupiter. Here, learners mimic the techniques scientists use to gather information about objects in our solar system, write...
Lesson Plan
Messenger Education

Exploring Solar Systems Across the Universe

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Scientists have theorized that our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago. In this pair of activities, learners first hypothesize how our solar system was formed. Using this information, groups then determine how scientists search for...
Assessment
Fluence Learning

Writing About Informational Text: Beyond the Beyond—Galaxies

For Students 8th Standards
Everyone has a different point of view, even when it comes to the enormity of the universe. Two separate text passages explain the scope of a galaxy, prompting young readers to write an essay about each author's argument and how the...
Interactive
PBS

Latino Americans Share Their Experiences

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Three Latino Americans are the focus of an interactive that spotlights their accomplishments. Scholars get to know Lin-Manuel Miranda, Judy Reyes, and José Hernández through short informative text and videos. Participants read, take...
Unit Plan
NASA

Moon Power - Energy and Power

For Teachers K - 4th
Be over the moon about finding a resource on lunar power stations. An interesting unit composed of 10 lessons has pupils first learn about the energy and power needs of a futuristic lunar colony. They design and build a lunar power...
Activity
NASA

Mars Rover Driver Board Game

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Driving a Mars rover is a challenging task. Learners play a board game that simulates the decisions scientists and engineers make while controlling the rover. Their task involves building a command sequence to get from point A to point B...
Activity
NASA

Explore Mars With Scratch

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Learn what it takes to explore Mars in the comfort of a classroom. Individuals experiment with computer programming using a free online resource while learning about the factors affecting Mars Rover explorations. They create a...
Worksheet
Curated OER

XZ Tauri and The Super CME!

For Students 9th - 12th
In this XZ Tauri and coronal mass ejections worksheet, students use 3 photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope to solve 4 problems. They find the scale of the images, they determine the number of kilometers the XZ Tauri cloud...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Seeing Solar Storms in STEREO-II

For Students 11th - 12th
In this solar storms worksheet, students use a diagram given the location of two STEREO spacecraft satellites, a coronal mass ejection, the sun and the Earth to solve 2 problems about the coronal mass ejection. Students use segments,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Planning a Road Trip!

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students generate plans for a fictitious road trip.  For this time management lesson, students investigate the most effective way to travel the country arriving at specific cities.  Students create their plans based on time and...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Coronal Mass Ejections

For Students 9th - 12th
In this coronal mass ejections worksheet, high schoolers observe a time line of events that took place during a solar storm. Students use the time line to answer 3 questions about the solar storm and the time it took to reach Earth. High...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Black Holes-The Event Horizon

For Students 9th - 12th
In this black hole worksheet, high schoolers read about the three parts to a black hole including the Event horizon, the interior space and the singularity. Students solve five problems which involve using a given formula for the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Theoretical Quantum Physics... For Kids!

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Young scholars explore quantum physics by participating in several class activities. In this space-time lesson, students discuss the concepts of time traveling and the anatomy of an atom. Young scholars draw geometric figures and utilize...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Coronal Mass Ejection

For Students 9th - 12th
In this coronal mass ejection worksheet, students read about the coronal mass ejections detected by the IMAGE satellite and the Hubble Space Telescope resulting in auroras. Students solve 6 problems and determine the speed of the coronal...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Deep Impact-Comet Flyby

For Students 9th - 11th
In this comet and angles worksheet, students read about the Deep Impact spacecraft that flew by the comet Tempel-1. They use a given formula to find the angular diameter of the comet and solve 4 problems using the equation.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Our Sky Clock

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore space science by completing a worksheet in class. In this astronomy lesson, students discuss and identify star patterns in the night sky and relate these patterns to the approximate time they appear. Students complete an...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Young Writer's Workshop: Let's Argue

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice writing using a guided writing worksheet that helps them examine problems of human space exploration. They isolate lexical chunks used for writing about problems and write paragraphs of their own. Students write a...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Cassini-Huygens: Mission to Saturn & Titan

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this science word search worksheet, students will find 12 words related to the Cassini-Huygens space mission. There are facts about the mission and Saturn around the outside of the word search.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Lost Newton's Laws Lesson

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore momentum. For this physics lesson, students perform an experiment in which two balls are released on slanted boards while students observe which ball will go the farthest and the fastest. Students define and explain...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

LIFE IN SPACE Human Body: An Un-Earthly Home

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students examine an effect of zero gravity on the human body using a baby food jar, balloons and a jar with a large mouth.

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