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NASA Kids’ Club

Information for Parents, Teachers and Caregivers

NASA provides a safe place for children to play as they learn about NASA and its missions. NASA encourages you to visit NASA Kids’ Club and use its games and activities to inspire the next generation. 

Descriptions and National Education Standards below. The NASA Kids’ Club Picture Show is an image gallery of some of NASA’s coolest and most interesting pictures. They may be used as conversation starters or writing prompts to lead children in discussions about STEM-related topics and current events. The Now in Space slideshow introduces young explorers to the crew currently orbiting Earth on the International Space Station.

Read NASA’s web policy for interaction with children and the Federal Trade Commission’s tips on Protecting Kids Online.

National Education Standards

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA)
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
Common Core State Standards Initiative — English Language Arts and Mathematics Standards (CCSS)
AAAS Benchmark – American Association for the Advancement of Science
National Geography Standards (NGS)

Related Resources

NASA Space Place’s mission is to inspire and enrich upper-elementary-aged kids’ learning of space and Earth science online through fun games, hands-on activities, informative articles and engaging short videos. With material in both English and Spanish and resources for parents and teachers, NASA Space Place has something for everyone. The Space Place can help educators build lesson plans that align with the Next Generation Science Standards.

NASA’s Climate Kids website tells the story of our changing planet through the eyes of the NASA missions studying Earth. Targeting upper-elementary-aged children, the site is full of games, activities and articles that make climate science accessible and engaging. Climate Kids can help educators build lesson plans that align with the Next Generation Science Standards.

Kids’ Club Game Descriptions

Grade K Standards/Skills

What Comes Next?

Students view a row of space-related objects and must choose the one that comes next in the sequence.

NCTM Standard: Recognize, describe and extend patterns, such as sequences of sounds and shapes or simple numeric patterns, and translate from one representation to another. CCSS Mathematics Standard: Describe and compare measurable attributes.

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Grade 1 Standards/Skills

Rocket Builder

Students view a row of space-related objects and must choose the one that comes next in the sequence.

NCTM Standard: Recognize, name, build, draw, compare, and sort two- and three-dimensional shapes. ITEEA Standard: Students will develop an understanding of engineering design. CCSS Mathematics Standard: Reason with shapes and their attributes.

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Grade 2 Standards/Skills

Put It Together

Can you solve the puzzle? Students can choose a NASA image and the level of difficulty.

NCTM Standard: Understand patterns, relations and functions. CCSS Mathematics Standard: Analyze, compare, create and compose shapes. CCSS Mathematics Standard: Reason with shapes and their attributes.

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Put it Together

Grade 3 Standards/Skills

Search for Spinoffs

For more than 40 years, NASA has shared its technological discoveries with private industry. The results have been new products and services in medicine, transportation, public safety, computer technology and caring for Earth’s environment.

ITEEA Standard: Students will develop an understanding of the relationships among technologies and the connections between technology and other fields of study. NGSS Standard: Influence of Science, Engineering, and Technology on Society and the Natural World.

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Grade 4 Standards/Skills

Go to the Head of the Solar System

Students are challenged to answer questions about celestial objects as they travel through the solar system.

NGSS Standard: Space Systems: Stars and the Solar System. AAAS Benchmark: Earth is one of several planets that orbit the sun, and the moon orbits around Earth.

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Go to the Head of the Solar System