Students identify and interpret photographic details of a Martian surface image, design, and create a simple features map. They identify and interpret the geologic history of a part of Mars' surface and then, analyze and discuss the...

Learners participate in several activities that allow them to better understand magnetism.  In this exploratory lesson plan students take part in different activities to help them to better understand magnetic fields, circuits and...

Students examine the characteristics of craters. In this crater instructional activity, students discover how meteors form craters on planets and moons as they make their own craters and respond to observational questions...

Students read Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince and complete reading and vocabulary activities. In this reading and vocabulary lesson, students review vocabulary for the story and identify story elements for the text.

Students recognize different cloud types. They determine the seaonality of various types of clouds. They graph the data and determine if a correlation exists between season, cloud cover and type of clouds most prevalent during each season.

Students watch a video and participate in discussion about test pilot, astronaut, senator, and hero-John Glenn.

Students practice working with the symbolic notation for logarithms. They understand various types of patterns and functional relationships. They use symbolic forms to represent and analyze mathematical situations.

High schoolers explore sources of high-energy radiation and calculate student exposure to ionizing radiation over the past year.

Students examine the life of Sacagawea, the exceptional woman chosen to appear on the Golden Dollar, and write journal entries based on their research.

Students study and chart the levels of the atmosphere. They determine volume and location of the whole in the ozone layer by problem solving and drawing Antarctica.

Students identify and describe the moons of Saturn. They sort the moons by their characteristics. They write a paragraph describing the moons to end the lesson.

Students are split into teams. Students travel to the stars lesson on a given web site and gather information about stars. Students then choose a category for the tag board that the teacher has made. The teacher asks a question and...

Learners use runaway slave advertisements to discover how the language varies from the 18th to 21st century. Using primary source documents, they research the brutality of slavery and the desire of those in slavery to be free. They...

Students examine the role of an art curator. They use any artwork they have done throughout the year and create an art show. They create an invitation to hand out to parents.

Students create their own Saturn Discovery logs. They draw pictures of the planet and its founder. They share their drawings and writings with partners.

Students explore Jupiter's Moons. They calculate and predict the location of Jupiter's 4 large moons. In addition, they draw Jupiter with its moons correctly shown for the time of the observation.

Students experiment with soda cans and water to discover why air pressure is greater closer to Earth's surface.

Students explore how the amount of sunlight and heat change in areas that are shaded.

Students analyze an article written by an engineer at NASA proposing colonizing Mars with human explorers on the fastest track possible. They are invited to react to the article through several activities.

Students examine the characterisitics of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. They discuss what they think is on Titan and what the Huygens probe can tell them about the moon. They write a summary about the information they gathered during...

Students construct a 1/80th scale model of the interior of the KAO aircraft, or lay out a full-scale mock-up in their classroom or auditorium. they calculate the sizes of various sections of the cabin.

Seventh graders define vocabulary and discuss the characters in a movie.  In this solar station lesson plan students explore robots on the Internet. 

This lesson will bring students through a series of activities so that they will be able to make an informed decision as to whether man should explore space.

In 2009, four painted lady butterflies flew aboard space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station, where they grew and lived. Young scholars can use original photos from the mission to conduct open-ended scientific...