Space Activities
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Build a Galaxy
This activity helps students grasp the concepts of 3D modeling and astronomy. Students will learn through the activity and complete a hands on project while learning how everything in…
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Space Math
The activity links math, NASA, and astronomy. Students will learn all about the math used in NASA and complete cool activities to build their own math skills!
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NASA Coding
This activity links NASA, coding, and astronomy. Students learn the basics of coding through tutorials!
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Does the Moon Rotate?
Students will create 3D models of the earth and the moon to see how they move in relation to each other!
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Design a Planet
The activity will teach students about planet habitability and teach them to design their own new planet!
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Alka-Seltzer Rocket
The lesson will allow students to explore the concepts of design and chemical reactions! They will mix the vinegar and baking soda to make a rocket propel across the ground!
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Make a Comet
Students will use household items to create and mimic the activity of a comet. By doing so, students will learn about the heat and gravitational effects of the sun.
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Build your own App!
This tutorial helps walk through the process of making an app. Kids will enjoy making a simple app through examples.
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Build an Air Powered Bottle Rocket in 30 Minutes
Children will enjoy building this thirty minute rocket. They will only need some easy supplies.
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Sunspot Cycles
Children can learn about sunspots in this experiment. They can learn all about the cycle and even track it!
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Similar Triangles: Using Parallax to Measure Distance
Children will learn about motion parallax and will get to use it inorder to measure the distance of space objects.
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Correlation of Coronal Mass Ejections with the Solar Sunspot Cycle
Children can explore the correlation between coronal mass ejection activity and the solar sunspot cycle.
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Calculating the Circumference of the Earth
Children can conduct this experiment to calculate the circumfrance of the Earth. Some calculation is involved.
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Finding the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy Using Globular Star Clusters
Children can find the center of the Milky Way in this experiment. Be sure that they have a computer to conduct this project.
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The Reasons for the Seasons
Conduct your own experiment to find out why we have seasons on Earth. Make sure to read the explanation.
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A Puzzling Parallax
Children can do this activity to learn how scientists map planets and other things in the universe. This is a great activity to learn the scientific method!
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A Matter of Time
Children will be able to experience the difference between standard time and solar time. This is a easy and fun experiment.
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Where Did All the Stars Go?
In this experiment, children will learn why they can see stars in some places compared to others. This is a great way to get introduced to astronomy.
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What Makes the Rings of Saturn?
Children will demonstrate how the rings of Saturn are unique and learn how they are formed. This is an easy and fun experiment for the little ones.
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Craters and Meteorites
Is your child interested in space? This simple experiment will teach them how craters are formed on the surface of planets and moons.
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Stopped Dead in its Tracks
Chemical traces of an organism can often be detected long after it dies. In this activity, your students can find out how.
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Searching for Meteorites
In this activity, your students can learn about how scientists put meteorites 'back together again' after impact.
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Deep Impacts Comet on a Stick!
In this activity, your students can learn more about comets as they make their very own model.
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Mud Splat Craters
What does a crater look like? What happens to a planet’s surface during an impact? What are the feature created during an impact? In this fun activity, your students can find out the…
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Make a Comet Model and Eat It
In this activity, your students can learn more about comets while making ice cream.
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Its Just Right--Finding Life in the Universe
In this experiment, your students can set up an experiment to determine yeast's temperature tolerance extremes.
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Make A Spaceship
Design and build your own spaceship, space station or satellite. What features will you add to make your creation safe as it travels in space? This is a fun space activity for student…
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Living on the Moon
What would happen to human civilization if something happened to the Earth? In this activity, your students can think about the factors that need to be considered to live on the moo…
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Launch a Rocket from a Spinning Planet
In this activity, your students can learn more about how the Earth's rotation affects the path of a rocket.
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Build a Moon Habitat!
In this activity, your students can learn more about space exploration as they build their own virtual moon habitat.
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Geologic Landforms Seen on Aerial Photos
In this activity, your students will learn more about geologic landforms by examining aerial photos of the planets.
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Into Space!
In this online game, your students can launch a rocket to space with the goal of getting there in the shortest number of days possible.
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Space Exploration Crossword
Your students can test their knowledge of space exploration with this online crossword puzzle.
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Lunar Lander
In this online simulation, you students can try their hand at landing the lunar lander in all sorts of different gravities, from the moon to Mars.
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Space Shuttle - Online Flight Simulator
In this online simulation, your students can learn about what it was like to fly the space shuttle. They can do a real-time launch sequence, a sixty second launch sequence, or skip t…
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Lets Go to Mars!
In this online activity from NASA, your students can decide what they would bring on a mission to Mars, and see how they score.
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Mission to Jupiter
In this online game, your students can help Juno, the latest rocket sent by NASA to Jupiter, explore the largest planet in our solar system.
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Space Word Search
Your students can test how many space-related words they already know by trying to find them in this word search! You can also help them find new words that they don't already know!
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Space Quiz
Space is a mysterious place but there are plenty of things we are sure about when it comes to that vast space that surrounds us here on earth. Your students can challenge what they th…
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Moonlight Madness
In this online activity, your students can learn more about the phases of the moon.
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Solar System Crossword Puzzle
Your students can test their knowledge of our solar system with this online crossword puzzle.
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Space Word Search
You can challenge your students space vocabulary with this online word search.
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The Many-Eyed Earth Watcher
In activity from NASA, your students can first learn about MISR, a satellite with nine cameras that orbits the Earth, and then test their knowledge with a crossword puzzle.
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Solar System Explorer
In this online game from NASA, your students can fulfill different missions all around the solar system.
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Whats Your Earth IQ?
In this fun quiz from National Geographic, your students can test their knowledge of their home planet.
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Follow the Falling Meteorite
In this activity, your students can use triangulation techniques to locate a fallen meteorite. Extended math applications can be added to this activity. (Picture Credit to Dr. Svend Buhl)
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Cosmic Chemistry: An Elemental Question
In this activity, your students can learn more about the Periodic Table of Elements and the Genesis mission scientists' quest for elemental clues about the beginning of the universe.
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Cooking Up a Comet
In this activity, your students can make an impressive comet out dry ice, a delicious comet made of ice cream, and research famous comets on the internet.
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Comet Origins and Travels
In this activity, your students can learn more about the origins of comets and their travels through the Solar System.
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Deep Impact Comet on a Stick
In this activity, your students can build their own model of a comet, and then use the same process as scientists and engineers to evaluate its weaknesses and strengths.
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Building Blocks of Planets
In this activity, your students can learn about three different stages of planet formation.
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Making a Comet in the Classroom
In this activity, you can make a comet in front of the class using dry ice and a variety of other materials.
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Asteroid Resources (Edible Asteroid Mining)
In this activity, your students can plan their own mission to an asteroid. They'll also get to simulate a miniature mining expedition of an edible asteroid.
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Make Asteroids You Can Eat!
In this activity, your students can learn more about asteroids while making a delicious treat they can eat.
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Stargazers
In the past, people remembered the positions and patterns of stars by seeing them as pictures from famous stories. On this cool website, your students can see how good they are at ma…
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Sky Slide Puzzle
Your students can piece together different picture of the universe in these cool online slide puzzles.
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<Deep Space> Space Memory Game
Your students can test their memories with this online space matching game.
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The Universe Crossword Puzzle
How much do your students know about the intricacies of the universe? With this online crossword puzzle, they can test their knowledge and fill in the gaps.
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Tails of Wonder
In this game, your students can help the Stardust spacecraft capture comet dust and bring it back to Earth.
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Black Hole Rescue!
In this game from NASA, your students can learn about black holes as they save words from being sucked away.
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Impact Craters - Holes in the Ground!
In this activity, your students can create impact craters in plaster of Paris or layered dry materials in oder to learn about how craters are formed.
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Hole-In-One
The Genesis spacecraft has a device called the ion concentrator that is used to collect specific types of solar wind. In this activity, your students can learn more about how it work…
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Here Comes the Heat
Often, waves in the electromagnetic spectrum not visible to the naked eye are all scientists have to go on to learn about distant objects in space. In this activity, your students ca…
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Edible Rocks
In this activity, your students can learn more about meteorites, communication, and teamwork using their favorite candy bars.
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Cooling with Sunshades
In this activity, your students can learn more about heat and how it can affect different substances both on Earth and in space. They'll get to make a simple device to test the phase…
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