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Auroral Magnetism from the Ground
Topic: Magnetism
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Earth
Mission: Earth Science (Earth)
Short Description: Students analyze graphs to determine the range of magnetic changes at Canadian observatories.
Beat the Heat
Grade Level: K-4
Short Description: Some instruments on the spacecraft get hot just doing their jobs and need to get rid of the excess heat.
Best of the Solar System
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Our Solar System
Short Description: This activity introduces students to planetary research. Using some of the most famous and interesting images of the solar system, students learn to focus on details by studying uncaptioned images. Next students increase their knowledge of the planets and their features by comparing their observations to those of real researchers. Students organize their findings to infer a key difference between inner and outer planets.
Boiling Water Below Its Boiling Point
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Mars
Mission: Mars Recon Orbiter (Mars)
Short Description: Participants discuss the relationship between pressure and boiling point as they discover that water boils when its vapor pressure equals atmospheric pressure.
Build a Newtonian Physics Machine
Grade Level: K-4
Short Description: If you build it carefully, this crazy contraption demonstrates one of the basic laws of nature.
Build a Solar System
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Our Solar System
Short Description: This resource from the Exploratorium allows teachers and students to select a size for an object to represent the sun and all other sizes and distances in the solar system and distances to other interesting stars are calculated. The resource can be very good for a differentiated classroom to reduce the math requirement.
Build Your Own Comet
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Comets
Mission: Deep Impact (Comets)
Short Description: Participants may assist leaders in constructing a comet of dry ice and dirt. The model can then be used to demonstrate why comets have tails and why the tail always points away from the sun, sublimation, orbits of comets, and concepts of radiation, pressure, and solar wind.
Building Blocks of Planets (Accretion)
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Sun
Short Description: In a demonstration, participants see an illustration of planetary accretion.
Cake Batter Lava (Viscosity)
Topic: Planetary Surface Processes
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Earth
Short Description: Participants use cake batter to simulate surface lava flows with channels, levees, and ridges.
Can Photosynthesis Occur at Saturn?
Topic: Light and Spectra
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Saturn
Mission: Cassini (Saturn)
Short Description: Participants learn the basic principle of photosynthesis and explore the intensity of sunlight on Saturn and its affect on photosynthesis.
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