For Museum Professionals & Group Leaders

Offering a treasure trove of NASA resources to its museum, planetarium and science center partners since 2003, the Museum Alliance spreads the wonder of space and science far and wide.

JPL's Informal Education Department has created this alliance to assure that museums, science centers, planetaria and other informal education organizations have ready access to news, image products, schedules and professional development for JPL's missions. Professionals at more than 500 organizations are currently partners in the Museum Alliance.

Join this nationwide community and get one-stop planning resources for your astronomy events.

NASA and JPL maintain speakers bureaus that educate the public about NASA and its missions by sending speakers out to various events. This page includes specific information about JPL speakers and has links to request a speaker from any NASA center.

Take your students on a tour of Saturn and its moons with downloadable interactive that uses really data to show where the Cassini spacecraft is in the Saturn system.

NASA and the Girl Scouts of the USA are partners in a groundbreaking effort to inspire young women to pursue careers in science, technology and mathematics.

JPL's Quilt Web site offers a matrix of activities and lessons that are grouped thematically and by age. This quilt is specific to activities that can help Girl Scouts achieve badges.

Most students love to think about the search for life beyond Earth. This NASA educator guide allows students to use the same strategies used by astrobiologists.

What can we learn from images of other planets? Most of the activities in this NASA educator guide use images to explain how we study Mars and how we can study Earth with images taken from space.

NASA astronauts appear before a variety of groups to inform the general public about the U.S. space program. Due to the demands on their schedule, many requests have to be turned down.

This NASA educator guide teaches concepts related to the sun. Each of the activities can be completed in about one hour.