Alka-Seltzer Rockets
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud, Earth's Moon
Short Description: Using baking soda and vinegar, propel an object across the floor to introduce the idea of how things move through space.
Analyzing Elemental Abundances
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud
Mission: Genesis (Our Solar System)
Short Description: Participants will practice and understand the use of ratios in describing the abundances of isotopes.
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.
Changing Theories About Mars
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Mars
Short Description: Once thought to be home to life forms that built canals, the view of Mars' habitability has changed significantly over the past several decades. Keeping open-minded about new information allows scientists to fully explore options. Open-mindedness is important to the culture of science. Click here to access the resource for this activity.
Changing Theories About Mars (Activity Resource)
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Mars
Short Description: The various ideas about Mars are mapped out in this handy timeline and chart comparing Mars and Earth.
Dirty Ice or Icy Dirt (Slides)
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Mission: Phoenix (Mars)
Short Description: Large amounts of water ice appear to be buried at high latitudes on Mars. In this activity, students make physical models using Earth samples to investigate whether it is more likely that these regions of Mars are composed of icy dirt (with ice filling the pore space of soils) or dirty ice (with dust sprinkled through a mostly icy surface).
Dirty Ice or Icy Dirt (Student Guide)
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Mission: Phoenix (Mars)
Short Description: Large amounts of water ice appear to be buried at high latitudes on Mars. In this activity, students make physical models using Earth samples to investigate whether it is more likely that these regions of Mars are composed of icy dirt (with ice filling the pore space of soils) or dirty ice (with dust sprinkled through a mostly icy surface).
Dirty Ice or Icy Dirt (Teacher Guide)
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Mission: Phoenix (Mars)
Short Description: Large amounts of water ice appear to be buried at high latitudes on Mars. In this activity, students make physical models using Earth samples to investigate whether it is more likely that these regions of Mars are composed of icy dirt (with ice filling the pore space of soils) or dirty ice (with dust sprinkled through a mostly icy surface).
Earth, Earth's Moon, Mars Balloons
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Earth, Mars, Earth's Moon
Short Description: Curiosity about our place in space and whether we can travel to distant worlds beyond our own depends upon understanding the size, distance and other characteristics of moons and planets in our solar system. For this activity, students will construct a balloon scale model to understand the relative sizes of the Earth, Earth's Moon and Mars in relation to each other and their relative distance to each other at this scale. They will use this model to predict distances and reflect on how scientists use models to construct explanations through the scientific process. In this collection, this activity introduces the concept of models, which will be built upon in subsequent lessons, as well as the first set of Earth/Mars comparisons.
Geologic Landforms of Mars
Topic: Landforms
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Mars
Mission: Mars Recon Orbiter (Mars)
Short Description: Participants use aerial photos of the Martian surface to study landforms of Mars and interpret the geologic processes which formed them.
Goldilocks and the Three Planets (Main Portal)
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Venus, Earth, Mars
Short Description: Students determine what some of Earth, Venus and Mars' atmosphere is composed of and then mathematically compare the amount of the greenhouse gas, CO2, on the planets Venus, Earth and Mars in order to determine which has the most. Link to the interactive feature.
Goldilocks and the Three Planets (Student Handout)
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Venus, Earth, Mars
Short Description: Students determine what some of Earth, Venus and Mars' atmosphere is composed of and then mathematically compare the amount of the greenhouse gas, CO2, on the planets Venus, Earth and Mars in order to determine which has the most. Link to the interactive feature.
Goldilocks and the Three Planets (Teacher's Packet)
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Venus, Earth, Mars
Short Description: Students determine what some of Earth, Venus and Mars' atmosphere is composed of and then mathematically compare the amount of the greenhouse gas, CO2, on the planets Venus, Earth and Mars in order to determine which has the most. Link to the interactive feature.
Inside Mars -- Puzzling Patterns -- Where Does Volcanism Occur?
Topic: Comparing Solar System Objects
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Earth, Mars
Short Description: Students compare volcano maps of Earth and Mars and identify patterns, similarities and differences.
Investigating the Dynamic Martian Polar Caps
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Earth, Mars
Short Description: Students use internet resources and image processing to measure and compare the Martian and terrestrial polar caps at different seasons, and analyze their results.
Is There Liquid Water on Mars?
Topic: Planetary Surface Processes
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Mars
Mission: Mars Recon Orbiter (Mars)
Short Description: Participants consider the likelihood of liquid water on Mars while analyzing actual data and images of the Martian surface.
Lava Layering
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Mars
Short Description: Students will sequence lava flows produced by multiple eruptions. Baking soda, vinegar, and play dough, are used to model fluid lava flows. Students will be asked to observe where the flows travel, make a model, and interpret the stratigraphy.
Lesson 15: Egg Drop Lander
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Mars
Mission: Phoenix (Mars)
Short Description: One important tool used by modern planetary scientists is a lander. In this activity, students model a mechanism for safely delivering a lander to the surface of another world.
Let's Investigate Mars Activity (For Educators)
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Mars
Mission: Spirit/Opportunity (Mars)
Short Description: This lesson will help your students answer the question: "What do I need to know about Mars in order to live there in the future?"
Let's Investigate Mars Activity (For Students)
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Mars
Mission: Spirit/Opportunity (Mars)
Short Description: This lesson will help your students answer the question: "What do I need to know about Mars in order to live there in the future?"
Let's Investigate Mars Activity en Español: Vamos a Estudiar a Marte (For Educators)
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Mars
Mission: Spirit/Opportunity (Mars)
Short Description: This lesson will help your students answer the question: "What do I need to know about Mars in order to live there in the future?"
Formular una indagación científica original y colectiva basándose en las recientes exploraciones robóticas de Marte. ¿Qué necesito saber sobre Marte para poder vivir allí en el futuro?"
Let's Investigate Mars Activity en Español: Vamos a Estudiar a Marte (For Students)
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Mars
Mission: Spirit/Opportunity (Mars)
Short Description: This lesson will help your students answer the question: "What do I need to know about Mars in order to live there in the future?"
Formular una indagación científica original y colectiva basándose en las recientes exploraciones robóticas de Marte. ¿Qué necesito saber sobre Marte para poder vivir allí en el futuro?"
Life: Here? There? Elsewhere? The Search for Life on Venus and Mars
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Venus, Mars
Short Description: Students investigate the phenomena of life through activities that introduce them to the multidisciplinary sciences of planetology and exobiology. Simulating Venusian and Martian conditions, they explore various means of detecting life in the atmosphere and soils of Earth. They use their findings to propose a spacecraft design for life detection on Venus and Mars.
Life: Here? There? Elsewhere? The Search for Life on Venus and Mars (Mission 11 Alternate "Mission to Mars Spectroscopy")
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Venus, Mars
Short Description: Students investigate the phenomena of life through activities that introduce them to the multidisciplinary sciences of planetology and exobiology. Simulating Venusian and Martian conditions, they explore various means of detecting life in the atmosphere and soils of Earth. They use their findings to propose a spacecraft design for life detection on Venus and Mars.
Life: Here? There? Elsewhere? The Search for Life on Venus and Mars (PowerPoint)
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Venus, Mars
Short Description: Students investigate the phenomena of life through activities that introduce them to the multidisciplinary sciences of planetology and exobiology. Simulating Venusian and Martian conditions, they explore various means of detecting life in the atmosphere and soils of Earth. They use their findings to propose a spacecraft design for life detection on Venus and Mars.
Mars Activity Book: # 3 Areology -- The Study of Mars
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Mars
Short Description: PP 11-15. Participants model a core sample of the Martian surface to investigate the history and geologic of Mars. Note: This is a 129 page PDF.
Mars Exploration - Is There Water on Mars? - #1: How Hot Can You Make Water?
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: PP. 1-6. Students become aware of their preconceptions by considering how how they could heat water. They then test their preconceived ideas by heating water and measuring its temperature. At some point near 100 degrees Celsius, students find that the water temperature no longer rises. They graph the data and try to make sense of the temperature plateau. Note: This is a 105 page PDF.
Mars Pathfinder: Egg Drop and Landing
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud, Earth's Moon, Pluto
Mission: Mars Pathfinder (Mars)
Short Description: Design, build, and test a system for landing on the surface of Mars without breaking the cargo, an egg.
Mars Robotics Lesson Backgrounds
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: Robotic activities provide ideal ways to help students understand the role of engineering and technology in today's world.
Mars Robotics Lesson Plans
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: From looking at personal robots to those we send to other worlds, this set of 12 activities will help students learn the different elements necessary to design and build a robotic mission to the Red Planet.
Mars Student Imaging Project
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Mission: Curiosity / MSL (Mars)
Short Description: Want the chance to make a new discovery through real Mars research of your own?
From around the nation, teams of students grade 5 -- college work with NASA scientists, mission planners, and educators to take their own picture of Mars and make discoveries. In this student-centered project, learners understand how science really works by being scientists and interacting with practicing scientist role models.
It's fun, free, and real-world science. It gives students an authentic experience of the scientific process and their own STEM-based capabilities. Along with learning the scientific process, students gain knowledge of Earth Science concepts using Mars as an analog. The chance to explore the Red Planet motivates students to engage in successful research experiences.
Mars Uncovered (Student Guide)
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: This activity guides students through an inquiry-based, critical thinking approach to studying the surface of Mars; students create a geologic map of part of Mars and use relative age dating techniques of craters to analyze the information and interpret the geologic history of the region.
Mars Uncovered (Teacher Guide)
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: This activity guides students through an inquiry-based, critical thinking approach to studying the surface of Mars; students create a geologic map of part of Mars and use relative age dating techniques of craters to analyze the information and interpret the geologic history of the region.
Marsbound! Mission to the Red Planet
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Mars
Short Description: By playing an interactive card game, students create a mission that balances science return with mission constraints.
Martian North Polar Layered Bean Dip
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Mission: Phoenix (Mars)
Short Description: Ingredients
1 pound cooked ground beef
(or 18 oz CHI-CHI'S® Restaurante Taco Tub ground beef or 1 can (15-ounce) refried beans)
2 jars of bean dip
2 cartons (16-ounce) sour cream
2 jars Salsa
¾ cup chopped green onion
1 cup diced tomatoes
1 can (2.25-ounce) sliced ripe black olives, drained
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
1 package (.78-ounce) taco seasoning mix
3 bags Tostitos Scoop Tortilla Chips
A mixing bowl
A mixing spoon
Individual plates, one for each participant
Napkins
Measuring Solar Activity
Topic: Light and Spectra
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Our Solar System, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud
Short Description: Measuring Solar Activity is a multi-part exercise in math and physics for high school students and above. Students will learn graphing, pattern recognition by looking at satellite images and 250 years worth of data, making predictions, and recognizing spacial relationships.
Modeling the Solar System
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud, Earth's Moon
Short Description: This PDF contains four lessons:
1) Modeling Orbits in the Solar System. This lesson models the orbital distances between the planets and shows that the solar system is mostly empty space.
2) Modeling Sizes of Planets. This lesson compares the relative sizes of the planets to those of familiar fruits and vegetables. It also uses size to calculate density and planet composition.
3) Looking Inside Planets. This lesson involves modeling the interior structures of the planets and shows that the solid cores of the gas giants are similar in size to the Earth or Venus.
4) Search for A Habitable Planet. This lesson looks at the characteristics of planets that make them livable, their temperature, and compositions of atmosphere and surface instead of size
or orbit.
Mud Splat Craters
Topic: Planetary Surface Processes
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud, Earth's Moon, Pluto
Short Description: Observe crater formation in mud to introduce the idea of fluidized craters as seen on the surface of Mars.
Mystery Planet
Topic: Solar System Exploration
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Mars
Short Description: In this activity, students step into the shoes of real planetary scientists and explore crustal samples from a "Mystery" planet. Using sorting/classification, students will interpret the geologic history of a region from which a sample has been collected and make inferences about past life or the potential for life on the "Mystery" planet.
Probing Below the Surface of Mars
Topic: Water in the Solar System
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Mars
Mission: Mars Global Surveyor (Mars)
Short Description: Participants model the process used to test for water ice on Mars and examine how the ice content of the Martian soil will affect the rate at which a warm probe will cool.
Remote Sensing Ices on Mars (Main Portal)
Topic: Light and Spectra
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: Students analyze data collected by Mars spacecraft using three different energies of light -- visible light, infrared light and gamma rays -- to investigate the composition and distribution of ices at the high latitude regions of Mars.
Remote Sensing Ices on Mars (Powerpoint Presentation Extension)
Topic: Light and Spectra
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: Students analyze data collected by Mars spacecraft using three different energies of light -- visible light, infrared light and gamma rays -- to investigate the composition and distribution of ices at the high latitude regions of Mars.
Remote Sensing Ices on Mars (Powerpoint Presentation)
Topic: Light and Spectra
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: Students analyze data collected by Mars spacecraft using three different energies of light -- visible light, infrared light and gamma rays -- to investigate the composition and distribution of ices at the high latitude regions of Mars.
Remote Sensing Ices on Mars (Student Guide Extension)
Topic: Light and Spectra
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: Students analyze data collected by Mars spacecraft using three different energies of light -- visible light, infrared light and gamma rays -- to investigate the composition and distribution of ices at the high latitude regions of Mars.
Remote Sensing Ices on Mars (Student Guide)
Topic: Light and Spectra
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: Students analyze data collected by Mars spacecraft using three different energies of light -- visible light, infrared light and gamma rays -- to investigate the composition and distribution of ices at the high latitude regions of Mars.
Remote Sensing Ices on Mars (Teacher Guide Extension)
Topic: Light and Spectra
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: Students analyze data collected by Mars spacecraft using three different energies of light -- visible light, infrared light and gamma rays -- to investigate the composition and distribution of ices at the high latitude regions of Mars.
Remote Sensing Ices on Mars (Teacher Guide)
Topic: Light and Spectra
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: Students analyze data collected by Mars spacecraft using three different energies of light -- visible light, infrared light and gamma rays -- to investigate the composition and distribution of ices at the high latitude regions of Mars.
Rivers on Mars?
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Mars
Short Description: Using a stream tables, students simulate the development of the Martian landscape through water flow and erosion. (This modified version of a middle school activity was created for young elementary students.)
Rover Races
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Mars
Mission: Curiosity / MSL (Mars)
Short Description: Working in small teams, students pretend to be a rover and learn the constraints of operating a rover on Mars.
Scratching the Surface -- Carving Channels
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Mars
Short Description: Students create channel features with flowing water. Their observations of the ways in which flowing water alters the surrounding terrain will be used as clues to draw conclusions about Mars' geologic past.
Searching for Life on Mars
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Mars
Short Description: This lesson contains four exercises within three activities. The activities have been grouped to encourage students to think about the characteristics of life and about the possibility of looking for life on Mars.
Activity 1 -- Imaginary Martians
Activity 2 -- Looking for Life
- Part A: An Operational Definition of Life
- Part B: It's Alive
Activity 3 -- Mars Critters
Size and Shape Imaged
Topic: Life
Body: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud, Earth's Moon
Short Description: This activity contains a series of images of very small things. Students will view the images, hear the information from a script, and make some observations and connections. They will see Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images and Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) images of small living organisms and rock surfaces. Then, using their new perspective, they will view unidentified samples and speculate about the surfaces and the origins of the features in the images. The goal is to get the students to think about looking at very small objects and to realize
that observations are a great way to start scientific research.
Size and Shape Matters
Topic: Size and Scale
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Mars
Mission: Mars Global Surveyor (Mars)
Short Description: Participants gain appreciation for the importance of relative size and morphology in identifying microscopic structures as viewed with the scanning electro microscope. In this activity, participants sequence unlabeled electron micrographs.
Soda Straw Rockets
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Mars
Short Description: By building rockets out of simple drinking straws, students investigate how variations in a rocket's nose cone influences distance of flights.
Solar System Exploration Mission Timeline Activity
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Our Solar System, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Meteors & Meteorites, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Dwarf Planets, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud, Earth's Moon, Europa
Mission: ARTEMIS (Earth's Moon), Cassini (Saturn), Dawn (Dwarf Planets), DSN (Our Solar System), GRAIL (Earth's Moon), Hubble (Beyond Our Solar System), Huygens (Saturn), IBEX (Our Solar System), InSight (Mars), Juno (Jupiter), Lunar Recon Orbiter (Earth's Moon), MESSENGER (Mercury), NEAR Shoemaker (Asteroids), New Horizons (Dwarf Planets), Phoenix (Mars), Stardust (Comets), Venus Express (Venus), Viking 01 (Mars), Viking 02 (Mars), Voyager 1 (Our Solar System), Voyager 2 (Our Solar System)
Short Description: Extreme Exploration -- Solar System Exploration Missions Timeline involves students in the wide range of mission events of 2008-2015+. Using the Solar System Exploration Timeline poster as a guide, student teams research assigned missions and record events such as launch and landing, etc. It is expected that students will be drawn into the excitement of mission events as they follow along with NASA's Solar System Exploration -- past, current, and future.
Solar System Scale & Size
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Our Solar System, Mars
Short Description: Students will create a model of the solar system using beads and string, and compare planetary sizes using common types of fruit and seeds.
Strange New Planet
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Mars
Mission: Curiosity / MSL (Mars)
Short Description: Tell students they have a mission. They are scientists who have just discovered a strange new planet, and their job is to find out all about it. They will be exploring this new world in the same way that NASA explores the solar system
Summit Up -- Comparing Volcanoes on Mars and Earth
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Mars
Short Description: Summit Up is a 20 minute activity in which children make paper models to scale of the tallest volcanic mountains on Earth and Mars and discover a big difference between volcanoes on these two planets.
Tales of ... Dust storms seen on Mars
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: This activity details the weather on Mars from the earliest account in 1796 to 2001. This information can be used to introduce the idea that other planets experience seasons like Earth, as students learn how new data changes our understanding of Mars.
The Imagine Mars Project
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Mars
Short Description: This project emphasizes hands-on involvement and partnership building, making use of inexpensive and easy-to-find resources.
Through the Eyes of Scientists Grades 4-6: Volcanoes - They're Everywhere!
Topic: Landforms
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Earth's Moon
Mission: Cassini (Saturn), Galileo (Jupiter)
Short Description: Learn about volcanoes on Earth and in the solar system through the eyes of Scientist Dr. Rosaly Lopes.This lesson is part of the Through the Eyes of Scientists formal education product, and includes materials for students in grades 4-6.
Through the Eyes of Scientists, Grades 4-6: Volcanoes - Theyr'e Everywhere!
Topic: Landforms
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Our Solar System, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter
Mission: Cassini (Saturn), Galileo (Jupiter)
Short Description: Learn about volcanoes on Earth and in the solar system through the eyes of Scientist Dr. Rosaly Lopes.This lesson is part of the Through the Eyes of Scientists formal education product, and includes materials for students in grades 4-6.
Through the Eyes of Scientists: Around and Around - Everything is Moving
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Our Solar System, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud, Earth's Moon
Mission: Voyager 1 (Our Solar System), Voyager 2 (Our Solar System)
Short Description: Learning about the ever-moving objects in our solar system through the eyes of Scientist-Adventurer, Dr. Edward Stone. This lesson is part of the Through the Eyes of Scientists formal education product.
Through the Eyes of Scientists: Landforms and Canyons
Topic: Landforms
Grade Level: K-4, 5-8
Body: Our Solar System, Earth, Mars
Mission: Spirit/Opportunity (Mars), Curiosity / MSL (Mars)
Short Description: Use images like a scientist to investigate one of Earth's seven natural wonders, the spectacular Grand Canyon in Arizona, and the grandest canyon of all, Valles Marineris, on Mars. Students will meet an inspirational NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory geologist, Dr. Robert Anderson.
This lesson is part of the Through the Eyes of Scientists formal education product and is geared toward students in grades 4-6..
Through the Eyes of Scientists: Moons - Many, Many Moons!
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Our Solar System, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud, Earth's Moon
Mission: Cassini (Saturn), Galileo (Jupiter), GRAIL (Earth's Moon), Lunar Recon Orbiter (Earth's Moon)
Short Description: Learning about moons of the solar system through the eyes of Scientist-Moon Master, Dr. Bonnie Buratti.This lesson is part of the Through the Eyes of Scientists formal education product.
Through the Eyes of Scientists: Space Can Be a Chilly Place - Ice Is Nice!
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Our Solar System, Mercury, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud, Earth's Moon
Mission: Cassini (Saturn)
Short Description: Learning about ice in the solar system through the eyes of Scientist-Arctic Space Explorer, Mr. Ben Holt. This lesson is part of the Through the Eyes of Scientists formal education product.
Through the Eyes of Scientists: What is a Planet?
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Our Solar System, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud, Earth's Moon
Short Description: Learning about the Sun and the planets as a "treasure map" through the eyes of Scientist-Treasure Hunter, Dr. Phil Chamberlin.
Tricky Terrains
Topic: Solar System Exploration
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Mars
Mission: Mars Recon Orbiter (Mars)
Short Description: Participants analyze unknown soil samples as clues to identify the planets through given descriptions.
Voyage: A Journey Through Our Solar System -- Lesson 7: Is There Anyone Out There?
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: Once scientists have determined where they want to look for life in the solar system, the next step is to figure out how it is to be done. In this lesson, students first create an operational definition of life, and put it to the test by observing a mystery object. They then define and conduct an experiment, modeled after the life science experiments performed by the Viking Landers on the surface of Mars, to determine if they have discovered life forms in simulated Martian soil samples. The experiment is a simple but dramatic model exploring the differences between chemical and biochemical reaction -- which is key to revealing the presence of life.
Why Follow the Water (Introductory Reading)
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: Students investigate several physical properties of liquid water to better understand why we think water is important for life. An extension activity investigates the connection between liquid water and plant productivity on Earth.
Why Follow the Water (Main Portal)
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: Students investigate several physical properties of liquid water to better understand why we think water is important for life. An extension activity investigates the connection between liquid water and plant productivity on Earth.
Why Follow the Water (Student Guide Extension)
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: Students investigate several physical properties of liquid water to better understand why we think water is important for life. An extension activity investigates the connection between liquid water and plant productivity on Earth.
Why Follow the Water (Student Guide)
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: Students investigate several physical properties of liquid water to better understand why we think water is important for life. An extension activity investigates the connection between liquid water and plant productivity on Earth.
Why Follow the Water (Teacher Guide Extension)
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: Students investigate several physical properties of liquid water to better understand why we think water is important for life. An extension activity investigates the connection between liquid water and plant productivity on Earth.
Why Follow the Water (Teacher's Guide)
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Mars
Short Description: Students investigate several physical properties of liquid water to better understand why we think water is important for life. An extension activity investigates the connection between liquid water and plant productivity on Earth.
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