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Crash Landing! (Student Activity Sheet)
Grade Level: 5-8
Short Description: This activity examines the conditions necessary to support on-going life on a planet. After considering the conditions needed for life as we know it, students select the most habitable planet, in a fictitious planetary system, on which to crash land. For all of the directions, click here.
Crash Landing! (Teacher Answer Key)
Grade Level: 5-8
Short Description: This activity examines the conditions necessary to support on-going life on a planet. After considering the conditions needed for life as we know it, students select the most habitable planet, in a fictitious planetary system, on which to crash land. For all of the directions, click here.
Creature Feature
Topic: Solar System Exploration
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Neptune
Short Description: Participants observe teacher-made creatures and record data simulating future sample return.
Dance of the Moon and Oceans
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Earth, Earth's Moon
Short Description: Students discover how the Moon's gravitational pull causes the level of the ocean to rise and fall twice a day along most coastlines through this kinesthetic activity, and consider what the Earth's tides might have been like if there was no Moon.
Dancing Lights
Topic: Magnetism
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Earth
Short Description: Although children this age aren't prepared to learn about Earth's magnetosphere, they may be interested in the Northern Lights, which are caused by our magnetic field. Students explore the aurora through art and writing.
Design Challenge: How do you keep things from getting too hot?
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Mercury
Mission: MESSENGER (Mercury)
Short Description: Part of the "Staying Cool" education unit which investigates how MESSENGER can study Mercury without being damaged by the harsh high-temperature, high-radiation environment; in this activity, students design, build and test a model of MESSENGER and a sunshade.
Designer Genes for a Designer World
Topic: Life
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Short Description: In this series of guided inquiry activities, students explore how organisms adapt to their environments through changes in their genetic codes.
Designing Craters: Creating a Deep Impact
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Comets
Mission: Deep Impact (Comets)
Short Description: A two-to-three week student inquiry into the question: "How do you make a 7-15 stories deep, football stadium-sized crater in a comet?" The lessons are designed to provide students with experience in conducting scientific inquiries, gain a greater understanding of scientific modeling, and get the students involved with the excitement of a NASA mission in development.
Destination Mars Activities
Grade Level: 5-8
Short Description: This resource is an activity pakcet. It is a set of 6 hands-on lessons relating to Mars. It focuses on geology + water + life, but also includes math and social studies lessons. Lessons range from 5th grade all the way to college level. A video is also available.
Destination Mars: #6 Why do we Explore?
Grade Level: 5-8
Short Description: Students will review the seven traditional reasons why people explore, write a summary of their reasons, illustrate their exploration summaries, and relate the reasons for exploration to the missions to Mars.
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