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Fluttering in Space: The Butterfly Project
When NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis takes off for the International Space Station, a University of Colorado at Bolder butterfly experiment will be aboard, monitored from Earth by thousands of K-12...
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Teacher Program: Space Institute, NYC, Feb. 17-19, 2010
In this 3-day professional development institute at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, middle and high school teachers engage with a global gravity data set to understand how...
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Web Resources: Rockets for Schools
The Great Lakes Spaceport Education Foundation, Inc.'s Rockets for Schools program allows students to experience the excitement of building-high power rockets, coordinating a rocket launch and working...
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Website: A World of Space from NASA
NASA's Multimedia Gallery provides educators a wealth of supporting material, from an extensive image gallery -- featuring current and historic NASA missions, the planets of the universe, and the...
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Feature: Unlimited Space
Many kids dream of exploring space, but few get much further than their schoolyards. This is not true of students in Tekna-Theos, a Florida after-school program bursting with science activities and...
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DIY Space-flight Experiments for High Schoolers
Two Houston engineers have won a competition for low-cost experiments that high school students could send aboard a suborbital space flight. They have designed an inexpensive microgravity spaceflight...
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Contest: Scientist for a Day
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently announced the new Fall 2011 Cassini Scientist for a Day essay contest for students in grades 5-12. Winners are invited to a teleconference with Cassini...
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Feature: Enter the Dragon
When the Space Shuttle Discovery made its final flight May 12 and landed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space annex in northern Virginia, it marked "a very emotional, poignant, bittersweet moment"...
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Mission: Solar System
To mark the Year of the Solar System, NASA and PBS's Design Squad Nation have teamed up to create a series of fun, space-based engineering challenges for children in grades 4 to 8.
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Asteroid Impact!
In this first of eight activities, students in grades 6 - 8 learn about the engineering design process and earth science by beginning to design an underground cavern that can shelter people for one...
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NASA Summer STEM Fun
NASA has a host of heavenly STEM offerings for students and teachers this summer. Check them out!
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SciJinks for Kids: Wild Weather
From tidal curiosities and solar flares to bad weather jokes, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's SciJinks website offers a wealth of resources for learning and teaching about Earth's...
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Are We Alone?
The year is 2032 and your middle-school explorers have successfully achieved a manned mission to Mars! After establishing criteria to help look for signs of life, they conduct a scientific experiment...
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Star Trek Space Food Contest
Calling all Starfleet cadets! Star Trek and NASA want you to "boldly go where no one has gone before" and engineer the future of food in space by creating a digital 3-D model of a non-edible,...
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Think Outside the Box Contest
To celebrate the launch of BEAM, the first expandable habitat to the International Space Station, as well as the first commercial 3-D printer in space, NASA and the American Society of Mechanical...
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NASA Space Spinoff Contest
NASA's second annual OPSPARC Challenge asks students in grades 3 to 12 to identify everyday items that were first developed for a space mission and then imagine a new humanitarian purpose for that...
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Lift Your STEM PD with NASA
Looking for hands-on ways to teach forces and motion or refresh your Earth science lessons with the latest research? NASA's STEM Educator Professional Development Collaborative at Texas State...
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Edible Rovers
Middle school students act as Mars exploratory rover engineers. They evaluate equipment options, determine what parts fit in a NASA-provided budget, and, given a parts list, use these constraints to...
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Window On Our World
Built for engineering and science discovery, the International Space Station’s cupola also delivers awe and inspiration. Get a glimpse of the engineering behind this iconic addition to the ISS along...
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Astronauts Work Out
Everyone knows that it's important to exercise to stay in shape. When you're in orbit, exercise is absolutely vital! Astronauts aboard the International Space Station work out 2 hours a day to maintain...
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