Teaching Themes
Space: Everything You Need
Students will learn about space with these leveled activities and lessons for different skills and grade ranges.
Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities, Online Learning Activities
Journey Into Space: A Science Exploration
Grades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
Watch and learn about collisions in space with Dr. Mike Shara. Continue to leveled activities for different skills and grade ranges.
Sending Kids Into Space
Grades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
This is about space imulation programs for kids around the country.
Space Exploration
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
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 Online Learning Activities NASA: Challenging the Space FrontierGrades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 Once students accept their mission, they can blast off through time to study famous astronauts, the history of space exploration, and more through... |
Articles The Space EnvironmentGrades: 6–8, 9–12 One of the first discoveries made by early Earth satellites was that an unexpectedly high number of charged particles were trapped in the Earth's... |
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Articles Orbital Space ExplorationGrades: 6–8, 9–12 The practical uses of satellites in orbit around the Earth are described in many separate articles and in more general entries such as... |
Articles Interplanetary ProbesGrades: 6–8, 9–12 The exploration of other bodies in the solar system began within a few years of the first satellites. Both U.S. and Soviet space engineers set... |
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Articles Manned Space MissionsGrades: 6–8, 9–12 The most challenging and exciting aspect of space exploration has been manned spaceflight. Soon after the first satellites were launched, both... |
Book Resources, Books Mission to MarsGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Descriptions of how a crew of astronauts would travel to Mars and what their jobs would be are the subjects of this book. Many facts about the red... |
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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Gains WeightGrades: 3–5 Phoebe and her classmates find out that gravity pulls everything down. Your kids test whether gravity makes heavier things fall faster than... |
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Out of This WorldGrades: 3–5 If the asteroid Ms. Frizzle’s class followed crashed to Earth, it would create a huge crater. Your kids can explore the "craters" that objects... |
 Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Lost in SpaceGrades: 3–5 In this activity, your child learns the planets by making two models of the Solar System. The first shows the order of the planets, and the second... |
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Sees StarsGrades: 3–5 Dorothy Ann has a nifty new telescope, but she still enjoys looking at the stars with eye power alone. Your kids report star counts and explore... |
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Articles Find Where the Wind Goes BooktalkGrades: 6–8 From a Chicago inner-city school, to outer space as the first black woman astronaut, Mae has always reached for the stars. Let her tell you how... |
Lesson Plans, Book Resources Astro Bunnies Lesson PlanGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 A perfect bedtime story about little bunnies that zoom off for an outer-space adventure, but always return at bedtime. |
Exploring SaturnGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Features an interactive reproducible that offers research links for learning about Saturn as well as questions for students to answer based on... |
 Lesson Plans, Extension Activities Making Models of the Solar SystemGrades: 1–2, 3–5 Students learn the positions of the planets in the solar system as well as relative distances and sizes through modeling. |
 Lesson Plans, Extension Activities, Writing Activities, Book Resources Reading and Writing About the Solar SystemGrades: 1–2 Immerse your students in books and poetry to teach about the solar system with some of these creative ideas. |
Lesson Plans, Extension Activities, Writing Activities Using a Graphic Organizer to Research a QuestionGrades: 1–2, 3–5 Offers a lesson plan in which students learn about the solar system and sharpen their research skills. Involves researching a question and... |
 Lesson Plans, Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities Celebrating 100 Years of Flight for Grades 3-5Grades: 3–5 Students identifiy the characteristics shared by pioneering pilots like the Wright Brothers and Amelia Earhart, and the space shuttle astronauts. |
 Lesson Plans, Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities Celebrating 100 Years of Flight for Grades 6-8Grades: 6–8 Presents a lesson on the influence of the Wright Brothers, Amelia Earhart, and the space shuttle astronauts on history and culture. |
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Articles AstronautsGrades: 1–2, 3–5 What does it take to be an astronaut? Scientists answer students'questions. |
Articles Black HolesGrades: 6–8, 9–12 What is at the end of a black hole? Scientists answer students'questions. |
