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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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| | 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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| | Diameter of the Moon -- Grades 4-12
Students calculate the diameter of the moon using proportions. | |
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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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| | Earth's Moon Lithograph
Pictures and information about Earth's moon can be found on this lithograph.
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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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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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| | 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 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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| | Moon ABCs Fact Sheet -- Grades 4-12
Compare Earth to the moon with this list of facts. | |
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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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| | Moon Munchies Educator Guide -- Grades K-4
Students in grades K-4 participate in the engineering design process. They build and evaluate a lunar plant growth chamber of their own design. | |
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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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| | Nearside of the Moon -- Apollo Landing Sites -- Grades 4-12
See where the Apollo missions landed on the moon. | |
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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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| | Progress in Lunar Science -- Grades 4-12
Quickly review what has been learned about the moon from early missions. | |
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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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| | Rock ABCs Fact Sheet -- Grades 4-12
This fact sheet briefly explores the differences between minerals and rocks. | |
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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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| | Survival! Lesson -- Grades 6-8
This lesson will help your students answer the question: What are the most essential items for the survival of settlers and explorers in new worlds? | |
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| | The Lunar Disk -- Grades 4-12
Use a lunar sample disk, which educators can borrow from NASA, to bring pieces of the moon into the classroom. | |
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