Space Exploration Activities
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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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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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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.