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Teachable Moment .
Get the inside scoop on the Europa Clipper mission and its journey to explore an icy moon of Jupiter that could have conditions suitable for life. Plus, find ways to bring the excitement of the mission to your students.
Lesson .
In this engineering challenge, students must stay within design limitations while creating a balloon and gondola system that can descend or ascend at a given rate or maintain its altitude.
Students learn about and model weather patterns that make Antarctica ideal for scientific balloon exploration.
Student Project .
Find and identify objects like Jupiter and other planets in the night sky using free software.
Students learn about Earth processes by simulating and examining lava flows from a volcano model made of play dough.
Students play a strategy card game that requires them to use problem-solving to successfully explore the Moon and Mars.
Students design and build a shock-absorbing system that will protect two "astronauts" when they land.
Students apply their math problem-solving skills to a real-world challenge with a unique connection to NASA's Space Shuttle Program.
In this illustrated math problem, students use pi to measure the water depth of an area mapped by the CORAL mission.
Students learn how scientists assess wildfires using remote sensing and solve related math problems, appropriate for various grade levels.
