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| | 1902 Glider Poster
This poster describes the steps the Wright brothers took that led to the development of the 1902 glider.
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| | 3-2-1 Pop! -- Grades K-12
This lesson plan includes an activity in which students build film canister rockets powered by antacid tablets to demonstrate how liftoff is an application of Newton's Laws of Motion. | |
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| | 757 Glider Kit -- Grades 5-12
Use these problem solving challenges and build a paper model of a 757 glider.
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| | A Key to Discovery Poster
Use this NASA educational poster to teach about research on the international space station. | |
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| | Abrasion Tester -- Grades 5-12
In this activity, students use a homemade rock tumbler to measure the abrasion of fabrics and other suit materials exposed to simulated Martian sediment. | |
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| | Absorption and Radiation -- Grades 5-9
This activity demonstrates the effect of various colors, reflective surfaces and different materials on radiant heat absorption and heat radiation. | |
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| | Altitude Tracking -- Grades 5-12
In this science and geometry activity, students build a tracking device that will measure the altitude a rocket achieves during flight.
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| | Amateur Radio on the ISS Lithograph
This is about students communicating with astronauts on the international space station.
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| | Antacid Tablet Race -- Grades K-12
This lesson plan includes an activity in which students compare the reaction rates of effervescent antacid tablets under different conditions. | |
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| | Apollo 17 View of Earth Lithograph
This picture of the Earth was taken by the crew of Apollo 17.
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| | Apollo Landing Sites -- Grades 4-12
In this activity, students learn about the locations and geology of the six Apollo landing sites. | |
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| | Are there grocery stores in space? -- Grades 3-5
See some of the ways astronauts will have food for long-duration missions. | |
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| | Are you an explorer? -- Grades 3-5
NASA has big plans for exploration in the future. | |
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| | Asteroids Lithograph
A picture of Eros and information about asteroids can be found on this lithograph.
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| | Astrobiology: Science Learning Activities for Afterschool
Explore topics related to astrobiology using the activities adapted for afterschool programs with elementary-aged students. | |
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| | Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin Arrive on the Moon -- Grades 5-12
Watch film footage of the first moon landing accompanied by photographs and audio clips from Apollo 11. | |
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| | Astronauts Work Aboard the Command Module -- Grades 5-12
Watch footage of some of the tasks astronauts performed on the Apollo 11 command module during their three-day trip to the moon. | |
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| | Balloon Staging -- Grades 5-12
This activity demonstrates multistage rockets using balloons; then it has students engineer their own designs for multistage rockets. | |
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| | Barbara Morgan, Educator Astronaut Poster -- Grades K-12
The first Educator Astronaut shares words of inspiration on this full-color poster. | |
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| | Be a Fit Explorer Flier -- Grades 3-5
Students can "train like an astronaut" by completing activities in NASA's Fit Explorer project. | |
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| | Bending Under Pressure -- Grades 5-12
In this activity, students will observe how an external joint in a spacesuit arm segment increases the bendability of the segment. | |
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| | Bottle Rocket -- Grades 5-12
Construct and launch a simple bottle rocket made from a two-liter soda bottle. | |
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| | Bottle Rocket Launcher -- Grades 5-12
Construct a rocket launcher to use with two-liter bottle rockets. | |
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| | Brief History of Rockets
This brief history outlines how today's rockets are natural outgrowths of thousands of years of experimentation and research on rockets and rocket propulsion. | |
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| | Build It With Spacewalks Poster
Use the activities on the back of this poster to teach the technology behind space suits. | |
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| | Can a larger number be subtracted from a smaller number? -- Grades 3-5
Learn about negative numbers. | |
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| | Classifying Space Food -- Grades 5-8
In this activity, students classify the space food lists into the major food groups found in the Food Guide Pyramid. | |
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| | Clay Lava Flows -- Grades 4-12
In this activity, students will use clay to simulate surface lava flows. | |
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| | Cleaning Water Activity -- Grades 3-5
This lesson challenges students to create and test a water filtering system. | |
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| | Comet Lithograph
Pictures and information about comets can be found on this lithograph.
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| | Consider a Career in Aerospace Poster
Encourage young women to pursue careers in mathematics, science, engineering and technology with this poster.
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| | Cool Suits Activity -- Grades 3-5
This lesson challenges students to find the relationship between energy reflection/absorption and color. | |
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| | CORE Brochure
This describes NASA educational multimedia materials available through CORE and how to obtain a catalog.
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| | Dawn Mission Events Calendar -- Grades K-12
The six-year Dawn Mission Events Calendar highlights major events that will take place during the mission to the asteroid belt. | |
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| | Dehydrating Food for Space Flight -- Grades 5-8
In this activity, students determine the percentage of water reduction by dehydrating fresh food items. | |
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| | Designing a Crew Exploration Vehicle Activity -- Grades 3-5
This lesson challenges students to build a model of a CEV. | |
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| | Diameter of the Moon -- Grades 4-12
Students calculate the diameter of the moon using proportions. | |
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| | Did you know astronauts' bodies change in space? -- Grades 3-5
Even though our bodies change on Earth, the changes are more dramatic in space. | |
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| | Did you know astronauts study sand in space? -- Grades 3-5
Watching the movement of sand in space helps scientists understand how soil moves on Earth during an earthquake. | |
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| | Did you know NASA astronauts will recycle water in space? -- Grades 3-5
Nature recycles water through the water cycle. In space, NASA uses a water recycling system. | |
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| | Did you know NASA can build planes as small as insects? -- Grades 3-5
Airplanes as small as 20 centimeters across can be used for scientific work. | |
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| | Did you know that NASA found water on Mars? -- Grades 3-5
The Mars Odyssey spacecraft found evidence of water ice on the Red Planet. | |
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| | Did you know that Mars is a record-breaking planet? -- Grades 3-5
Mars holds the record for the highest peak and the deepest canyon known in the solar system. | |
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| | Did you know that the Earth has 24 different time zones? -- Grades 3-5
Learn why there are time zones. | |
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| | Different Gravity -- Grades 5-12
In this activity, students can simulate microgravity using household items. | |
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| | Differentiation -- Grades 4-12
In this activity, students will use common household objects to discover how minerals separate from each other in a magma ocean. | |
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| | Distance to the Moon -- Grades 4-12
Students calculate the distance between scale models of Earth and the moon. | |
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| | Do astronauts need calcium in space? -- Grades 3-5
On Earth, one of the reasons that people drink milk is for calcium. Astronauts cannot take milk into space, and so they must obtain calcium in other ways. | |
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| | Do you know what a glovebox is? -- Grades 3-5
A glovebox used in space is not the same as a glovebox in a car. | |
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| | Do you wonder how things work? -- Grades 3-5
If your answer is yes, you may have what it takes to travel to the moon. | |
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| | Does an electromagnet work like a regular magnet? -- Grades 3-5
Learn how to make an electromagnet. | |
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| | Earth and Space Science Explorers Poster -- Grades K-12
NASA Earth and space science explorers include people of all ages who use NASA science and technology to explore from planet Earth to the far reaches of the universe. | |
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| | Earth Lithograph
Pictures and information about Earth can be found on this lithograph.
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| | EarthKAM Bookmark
View this bookmark for information about EarthKAM - students controlling a camera on the international space station.
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| | Earth's Moon Lithograph
Pictures and information about Earth's moon can be found on this lithograph.
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| | Engineering Design Challenge Flier -- Grades K-12
Design, analyze, build and evaluate a plant growth chamber. Then plant basil seeds that have been exposed to the environment of space. | |
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| | Exploring the Extreme Educator Guide
Teach the basics of aeronautics through hands-on involvement, prediction, data collections and interpretation. | |
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| | Exploring the Moon Educator Guide -- Grades 4-12
These activities explore features of the moon and discoveries from the days of the Apollo missions.
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| | Extra-Credit Problems in Space Science -- Grades 7-9
This educator guide contains a collection of mathematics and reading activities that explore the sun-Earth system. | |
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| | Extravehicular Activity (EVA): Astronauts Walk In Space -- Grades 5-8
Watch as astronaut Linda Godwin explains the purpose of extravehicular activities, or spacewalks. | |
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| | Follow the Water Lesson -- Grades 6-8
This lesson will help your students answer questions about water's location and importance to life. | |
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| | Food for Spaceflight Activity -- Grades 3-5
This lesson challenges students to select and compare foods for spaceflight suitability, and package them for spaceflight. | |
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| | For Educators on NASA.gov Flier
The five sections of the For Educators area of the NASA.gov Web site include resources and news for the education community. | |
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| | Four Easy Ways to Obtain NASA Educational Materials Flier
Learn how to obtain NASA curriculum support materials in four convenient ways. | |
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| | Galilean Moons of Jupiter Lithograph
Pictures and information about Jupiter's moons can be found on this lithograph.
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| | Get a Leg Up Activity -- Grades 3-5
This lesson simulates the fluid shift felt by astronauts upon entering space. | |
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| | Getting the Right Fit -- Grades 5-12
In this activity, students experience the complex measurement process used in sizing a spacesuit arm to fit different wearers. | |
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| | Go to the Head of the Solar System -- Grades 3-5
Starting from the far-off dwarf planet Pluto, players answer questions about the solar system to advance from planet to planet and, finally, to the sun. | |
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| | Have Food Will Travel -- Grades 3-5
In this lesson, students use the new food guide pyramid to design a nutritionally balanced diet for long-duration spaceflight. | |
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| | How can airplanes fly like birds? -- Grades 3-5
Airplane wings don’t flap like birds' wings. So how do airplanes fly? | |
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| | How can a pilot see the ground through clouds? -- Grades 3-5
A vision system helps pilots land an airplane even when they can't see the runway. | |
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| | How can you find your place in space? -- Grades 3-5
People have used the sun, stars and maps to find their way. Today, geospatial tools also help humans navigate. | |
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| | How do satellites help us study Earth from space? -- Grades 3-5
Satellites see Earth in ways that human eyes cannot see. | |
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| | How do shuttles blast off? -- Grades 3-5
See how a space shuttle launch applies Newton's Third Law of Motion. | |
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| | How do you tell time in space? -- Grades 3-5
Space travel requires clocks that are more accurate than those used on Earth. | |
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| | How does a CD work? -- Grades 3-5
Believe it or not, sound is not recorded onto a CD. | |
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| | How does a mouse click connect you to the KSNN web site? -- Grades 3-5
Computer servers connect computers around the world. | |
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| | How does e-mail work? -- Grades 3-5
Learn how electronic mail travels from one computer to another. | |
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| | How long is a meter? -- Grades 3-5
Compare length measurements in the metric system. | |
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| | How many satellites does NASA use to study the Earth? -- Grades 3-5
To study the Earth, NASA uses many different satellites. | |
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| | How Much Is Waste? -- Grades 5-8
In this activity, students measure the mass and volume of a food package before and after repackaging and calculate the usable and waste portions. | |
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| | How Plants Grow in Space: The Effects of Gravity and Light -- Grades 3-8
Watch how students performed a controlled experiment in their classroom with sprouting seeds and compared them with those sprouted on the space shuttle. | |
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| | Human Needs Lesson -- Grades 6-8
This lesson will help your students answer questions about how people adapt to and meet their needs in new environments. | |
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| | I Want to Hold Your Hand -- Grades 3-5
In this activity, students construct a robotic-like hand to demonstrate how data are collected when using robotic technology. | |
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| | Investigating the Climate System - Clouds
Study cloud formation and their characteristics in this module for 5-8.
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| | Investigating the Climate System - Precipitation
This 5-8 module explores the study of rainfall.
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| | Investigating the Climate System - Weather
This is an activity designed to be used at the end of a unit on weather for 5-8.
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| | Investigating the Climate System - Winds
Study the ocean winds in this module for 5-8.
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| | Impact Craters -- Grades 4-12
In this activity, students will simulate meteorites crashing into the surface of the moon to determine the factors affecting the appearance of impact craters and ejecta. | |
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| | Impact Resistance Tester -- Grades 5-12
In this activity, students will simulate the impact of a micrometeoroid and test the resistant of materials to that impact. | |
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| | International Space Station: The First Step In Exploration Poster -- Grades K-12
This poster features basic facts about the International Space Station and activities related to robotic and engineering design. | |
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| | International Toys in Space Video Resource Guide
Use activities about toys in space to enhance hands-on science and mathematics lessons. | |
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| | Is flying a plane in a video game like flying a real plane? -- Grades 3-5
Video game flight simulators are much like the simulators used to train pilots. | |
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| | Is water important for all living things? -- Grades 3-5
Scientists think that finding water is the key to finding life. | |
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| | Jumbled Jets -- Grades 3-5
Students use logic and reasoning to find the correct lineup of airplanes on a runway. | |
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| | Jupiter Lithograph
Pictures taken by NASA spacecraft and information about Jupiter can be found on this lithograph.
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| | Keeping the Pressure On -- Grades 5-12
In this activity, students can demonstrate one method for creating a workable pressure inside a spacesuit. | |
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| | Keeping Your Cool -- Grades 5-12
In these activities, students construct a cooling system for a spacesuit. | |
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| | Kepler Mission Star Field Lithograph -- Grades All
This lithograph features an image of the star field that the Kepler spacecraft will observe during its four-year mission. The back provides information about the star field. | |
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| | Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud Lithograph
Pictures and information about the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud can be found on this lithograph.
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| | Launch a Career in Engineering Bookmark
Use the resources on this bookmark to access career information about engineering.
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| | Launch Vehicle Family Album
This "family photo album" of NASA launch vehicles contains samples of historic rockets, modern rockets and concept designs. | |
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| | Lava Layering -- Grades 4-12
In this activity, students learn about the stratigraphy, or rock layering, of lava flows produced by multiple eruptions. | |
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| | Learning to Fly: The Wright Brothers' Adventure
This educator guide has information about Wilbur and Orville Wright and activities for building gliders.
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| | Let's Investigate Mars Activity -- Grades 3-5
This lesson challenges students to develop an original, collaborative, inquiry investigation based on recent Mars robotic investigations. | |
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| | Life Support Systems -- Grades 4-12
In this activity, students design and build models of life support systems for a settlement on the moon. | |
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| | Living With a Star Educator Guide
This is a quick reference to resources for sun-Earth educational materials.
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| | Lunar Biosphere -- Grades 4-12
In this activity, students build a lunar biosphere that is a balanced, self-enclosed living system able to run efficiently over a long period of time. | |
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| | Lunar Land Use -- Grades 4-12
In this activity, students design a settlement on the moon that is suitable, feasible and beneficial. | |
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| | Lunar Landing Sites -- Grades 4-12
In this activity, students design a spacecraft for travel to and from the moon. Then they choose a suitable lunar landing site. | |
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| | Lunar Module in Space -- Grades 5-12
View the launch of Apollo 11 and watch as the command and lunar modules dock shortly after leaving Earth orbit for the moon. | |
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| | Lunar Nautics: Designing a Mission to Live and Work on the Moon Educator Guide -- Grades 6-8
Students will design, test, analyze and manage a space mission from initial concept to project funding while using this set of hands-on activities. | |
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| | Lunar Roving Vehicle -- Grades 4-12
In this activity, students construct a model of a lunar roving vehicle. | |
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| | Lunar Surface -- Grades 4-12
In this activity, students make a model of the moon's surface and consider the geologic processes and rocks of each area. | |
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| | Making Regolith Activity -- Grades 3-5
In this lesson, students create and observe simulated regolith. | |
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| | Mars and Earth: Science Learning Activities for Afterschool
Explore Mars and the Earth using these activities adapted for afterschool programs with elementary-aged students. | |
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| | Mars Lithograph
Pictures and information about Mars can be found on this lithograph.
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| | Mars -- The Red Planet Poster -- Grades K-12
The journey to Mars begins in the classroom. | |
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| | Mercury Lithograph
Pictures and information about Mercury can be found on this lithograph.
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| | Meteors and Meteorites Lithograph
Pictures and information about meteors and meteorites can be found on this lithograph.
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| | Microgravity Educator Guide
These activities enable students to experiment with the forces and processes of microgravity.
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| | Micrometeoroids and Space Debris -- Grades 5-12
In these activities, students simulate the effects of high-speed micrometeoroid impacts. | |
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| | Mold Growth -- Grades 5-8
In this activity, students observe mold growth on different types of bread, and measure and record the growth rate. | |
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| | Moon Anomalies -- Grades 4-12
In this activity, students will prepare written and oral presentations to debate one of four inconsistencies of the moon. | |
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| | Moon Mining Activity -- Grades 3-5
This lesson simulates the locating and the mining of ilmenite for oxygen on the moon. | |
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| | Moons of Saturn Lithograph
Pictures and information about moons of Saturn can be found on this lithograph.
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| | Moons of the Solar System Lithograph
Pictures and information about the major moons of the solar system can be found on this lithograph.
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| | My computer mouse broke. How can I fix it? -- Grades 3-5
Learn how a computer mouse works. | |
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| | NASA Space Grant Contacts Directory
This publication has contacts for the NASA Space Grant College and Fellowship Program.
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| | NASA Explorer Schools Brochure
Learn how your school can become a NASA Explorer School. | |
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| | NASA's Experimental Plane: What It Is And What It Does -- Grades 5-8
Experimental airplanes can be some of the fastest, slowest, smallest or largest airplanes. Learn about some that have no engines. | |
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| | Neptune Lithograph
Pictures of Neptune and information about the planet can be found on this lithograph.
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| | Newton Car -- Grades 5-12
This lesson plan includes an activity in which students experiment with a slingshot-like device that propels a mass in one direction, causing a car to move in the opposite direction. | |
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| | O2 -- How Much? -- Grades 5-9
In this activity, students will measure the quantity of oxygen a person needs during varying levels of activity. | |
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| | Optics: Light, Color and Their Uses Educator Guide
This guide has activities using lenses, prisms, hidden messages, periscopes and kaleidoscopes.
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| | Our Solar System Lithograph
Pictures and information about our solar system can be found on this lithograph.
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| | Our Solar System Lithograph Set
Pictures and information about our solar system can be found on these lithographs.
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| | Our Star -- The Sun Lithograph
Pictures and information about Earth's sun can be found on this lithograph.
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| | Packing Up for the Moon Educator Guide -- Grades 5-8
In this unit, middle school students participate in the engineering design process, in which they build and evaluate a lunar plant growth chamber of their own design. | |
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| | Paper Helicopter Plans -- Grades K-8
Students can build a simple rotor motor with these plans.
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| | Paper Rockets -- Grades K-8
This lesson plan includes an activity in which students experiment with rocket length and fin shape to construct and test small rockets made of paper.
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| | Planetary Geology Educator Guide
Study geologic processes using the activities in this guide from NASA.
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| | Pluto and Charon Lithograph
Pictures of Pluto, its moon Charon and information about them can be found on this lithograph.
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| | Pop Can Hero Engine -- Grades 5-12
This lesson plan includes an activity in which students demonstrate Newton's Third Law of Motion and experiment to find the relationship between the variables in their Hero Engines. | |
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| | Practical Rocketry
Modern rockets are more efficient than the rockets of old because of increased understanding of the scientific principles behind rocketry. | |
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| | Project X-35 -- Grades 5-12
Demonstrate rocketry principles through a cooperative problem-solving simulation. | |
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| | Ray Shielding Activity -- Grades 3-5
This lesson challenges students to analyze different materials to simulate space radiation shielding on a spacecraft and select the best material to build a spacecraft. | |
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| | Reaping Rocks -- Grades 4-12
In this Earth science lesson, students classify rocks from their neighborhoods to predict the origins of moon rocks. | |
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| | Regolith Formation -- Grades 4-12
In this activity, students compare the process of regolith formation on Earth and on the moon. | |
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| | Ripening of Fruits and Vegetables -- Grades 5-8
This lesson plan includes an activity in which students will experiment to compare the rate of ripening of fruits and vegetables when exposed to air. | |
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| | Rocket Principles
Newton's Laws of Motion form the basic principles of rocketry. | |
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| | Rocket Racer -- Grades 5-12
This lesson plan includes an activity in which students experiment with Newton's Third Law of Motion. They construct a rocket-propelled vehicle and try to increase the distance it travels. | |
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| | Rocket Transportation -- Grades 5-12
This lesson plan includes an activity in which students design and construct balloon rockets to carry a payload up a fishing line. | |
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| | Rockets Educator Guide
Teach the history, scientific principles and mathematics of rockets using these activities and lesson plans.
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| | Saturn: Jewel of the Solar System Poster
This poster describes Cassini's mission to explore the planet Saturn and reveals Saturn's beautiful rings which set it apart from the other planets. | |
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| | Saturn Lithograph
Pictures of Saturn, its rings and information about them can be found on this lithograph.
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| | Settlement Lesson -- Grades 6-8
This lesson will help your students answer the question: How do an area's location, soil and weather affect settlement? | |
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