Students play a strategy card game that requires them to use problem-solving to successfully explore the Moon and Mars. Plus, *NEW* Outer Worlds Expansion Pack now available!

Students use a spreadsheet model to understand droughts and the movement of water in the water cycle.

In this lesson, students use their knowledge of moon phases to build a calendar they can use to find out when and where to see each phase of the Moon throughout the year. Calendar for 2023 now available for download!

In this intermediate-level programming challenge, students use microdevices along with light and mirrors to build a relay that can send information to a distant detector.

Students use a planar model of a gravity well to create different orbital configurations around a central mass.

Students code microcontrollers to send and receive radio signals, simulating communications between Earth and spacecraft.

Students observe the process and results of transpiration from a plant in their schoolyard.

Students design a robotic insect for an extraterrestrial environment, then compare the process to how NASA engineers design robots for extreme environments like Mars.

Students use simple supplies to model how NASA tracks the location of spacecraft from Earth.