This educator's guide provides students with the opportunity to simulate collecting, testing, and examining soil samples from Mars. Includes background information, lesson plans, and content standards.

This set of activities teaches students about the big picture of science using Mars as an example: how to collect data, use evidence, and look at models.

This set of activities teaches students about the big picture of science using Mars as an example: how to collect data, use evidence, and look at models.

This unit teaches students about the forces that shape planets and help them to evolve. Lessons provide background information and assessments.

This detailed educator's guide provides a lesson in designing the structure of a spacecraft. The design challenge contains pre-lab activities and instructions for how to test the models.

This educator's guide provides students with the opportunity to solve mathematical problems related to space science. Includes space background information, lesson plans, and answer keys.

Download this Educators Guide to light, color, and their uses. Choose from different activities using lenses, prisms, hidden messages, periscopes, and kaleidoscopes

View a lithograph set that includes pictures and brief descriptions of planets, sun, asteroids, comets, meteors, and meteorites. While viewing the lithograph learn important dates and interesting facts about our solar system.

In this article, learn how rockets work. Discover Newton's Law of Motion and learn how it supports rocketry.

View pictures, descriptions, and dates of rockets throughout history. Learn about rockets and how they have evolved throughout time.

This NASA educator's guide provides teachers with activities, resources, and materials to educate students about the Sun.

This site from NASA provides a selected Annotated Bibliography on Martian Exploration presents classical Mars reading material from Percival Lowell and Alfred Russel Wallace from the turn of the last century, Werner von Braun and Willy...

This site explains NASA's plan to engineer a space probe that could measure the gravitational waves that Einstein predicted exist in space. Learn more about this space probe named LISA. There is also a crossword to check your...

This resource explains NASA's plan to engineer a space probe that could measure the gravitational waves that Einstein predicted exist in space. Learn more about this space probe named LISA. There is also a crossword to check your...

A lab experiment involving readily available materials. Learners analyze three forces acting upon one point to determine the resultant force. Questions and accompanying answers are provided.

Discover information about parts of the Solar System, along with definitions just by clicking on highlighted vocabulary terms. Be sure to try the "Solar System Activities" to review the material from these pages.

Learn about the important resources our land offers us: food, water, oxygen, building materials, and more. Discover how scientists have been mapping land for years trying to prevent disasters and to collect environmental information.

Offers an explanation of dark matter and dark energy, material that scientists cannot directly observe.

Describes the use of alloys on the space shuttle, and how to analyze alloys using X-ray fluorescence.

This colorful picture book is designed to introduce students to Earth's atmosphere, and to help them understand its importance to life on Earth.

This educator guide allows teachers and students to explore whether or not there is water on Mars. Download this PDF file and use activities to help explore Mars.

This photo of the moon shows the landing sites for Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.

This PDF storybook for children tells the story of the sun. The easy-to-understand text and graphics make it a useful classroom tool for younger students.

This site from Live from Earth & Mars [NASA] is a lesson plan using both interactive and written materials. Can be used as a unit or individually.