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Come along on a virtual journey to the asteroid belt, the Moon, Mars, Saturn, Pluto and Europa. Begin by downloading this free educational app to any iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch). Then point the camera at the compatible interactive posters... (View More)
Carl Sagan once claimed that the most important lesson we learn from studying the stars is perspective. To address this concept, this activity offers a scale model of the solar system to be evaluated. There are many versions of solar system scale... (View More)
Using stickers created from the templates provided, students create a Venn diagram of objects in our solar system, our galaxy and the universe. This short activity can be used as a formative assessment.
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1 per group of students
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory uses binary code to gather information about Earth's surface. That code, in the form of two numbers (1's and 0's) is then read and converted by computers into images. This two-page handout provides background... (View More)
Participants experiment with ultraviolet light sensitive plastic beads, which are generally white but turn colors when exposed to UV light. They are informed about the nature and risks of UV light and are asked to explore what types of materials... (View More)
In this game students have to think and move fast to keep up with the challenge of capturing and storing the massive flow of different kinds of data being captured by a GOES-R weather satellite. SciJinks is a joint NASA/NOAA educational website... (View More)
In this game, warnings from the GOES-R satellite lets players know when to shield other Earth satellites from the harmful effects of bad space weather. SciJinks is a joint NASA/NOAA educational website targeting middle school-aged children and their... (View More)
This comic addresses the question "What is color?" Using the Sun as an example, the comic discusses how visible light (white light) contains all the colors of the rainbow. It goes on to describe why our Sun is white, our sky is blue, and why sunsets... (View More)
This article describes the the effects of salt and heat on water and its movements. The accompanying game requires the manipulation of those two variables to create water currents leading to a treasure chest. A second article briefly describes six... (View More)
A brief article on the role satellites play in studying weather introduces the topic featured in the accompanying game. The game requires players to move tiles to re-create a photo of Earth or space weather. Additional photographs show three weather... (View More)
