Browse Archive
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Magnetic Math
11.30.10 - Explore magnetism with this collection of six lab activities and 37 mathematics-related problems.
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Flight Testing Newton's Laws
11.16.10 - Use these 16 educational video clips to teach Newton's Laws of Motion.
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Create a Comet With Dry Ice →
Watch this video to learn how to build an icy model of a comet, complete with shooting jets. Safety precautions are required.
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Technology Teacher: Navigating by Good Gyrations →
11.02.10 - Use these demonstrations to show how gyroscopes help guide spacecraft through space.
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NASA eClips Educators Guides
10.13.10 - These guides provide examples of how teachers may use video segments effectively as an instructional tool.
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Space Math III -- Are U Nuts?
10.05.10 - Converting from one set of units to another is a task scientists do every day. In this activity, students use dimensional analysis to convert obscure English units to metric units and vice versa.
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How Things Work Videos
09.28.10 - These videos showcase the creativity and dedication needed to turn the challenges of spaceflight into great achievements.
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Our Restless Planet →
09.14.10 - Use these animation clips to enhance your lessons about earthquakes, flooding, volcanoes and more.
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Weightless Wonder -- Reduced-Gravity Flight
09.08.10 - Students will learn about the parabolic flights of NASA's C-9 jet, the Weightless Wonder, as they use equations of motion to derive a solution to a real-life problem.
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Transportation and Space: Reuse and Recycle
08.31.10 - This unit encourages students to think about space exploration as an activity that will require humans to "live off the land" and use any resources available, whether natural or man-made.
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Solar System Lithograph Set
08.24.10 - This set includes 15 educational lithographs. Each one contains images, significant dates and background information about a planet or solar body.
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Do-It-Yourself Podcast
Create your own podcast with NASA video and audio clips.
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Myths Vs. Reality: Hubble Space Telescope →
08.10.10 - Remedy common misconceptions about the Hubble Space Telescope and space technology with this activity that can be completed individually or in groups. Teaching tips are included.
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Youth and Community Activities
07.07.10 - Are you looking for hands-on activities to do with youth groups or Scouts? Browse the websites listed here for fun things to do in an informal education setting.
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Do You See What I See? Astronomical Imaging Lesson →
06.29.10 - In this lesson, students examine the role that filters play in viewing an astronomical object. Each student will build a filter wheel through which they will examine a color image of the Crab Nebula.
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Galactic Doom
06.08.10 - "Galactic Doom" is the latest in the Space Mysteries series of interactive Web games for middle and high school students.
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Using Radiosonde Data From a Weather Balloon Launch →
06.24.08 - In this lesson plan from the MY NASA DATA team, students use radiosonde data from a weather balloon launch to distinguish the characteristics of the lower atmosphere.
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Distance to the Moon
05.18.10 - Students calculate the distance between scale models of Earth and the moon.
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Building a Telescope
05.04.10 - Students construct simple refracting telescopes and calculate the magnifications.
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Celebrating Apollo Series: The Presidents and NASA
This AP history lesson has students interpret primary and secondary sources to evaluate the role that presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon played in the development of the space program.