Students create a scale model of the solar system using beads and string.

Students will compute the approximate travel time to planets in the solar system using different modes of transportation.

Students predict the scale of our solar system and the distance between planets, then check their answers using fractions.

Students work in teams employing an iterative design process to design and build a water filtration device using commonly available materials.

Students will use the engineering design process to design, build, test and improve a model satellite intended to investigate the surface of a planet.

In this board-game lesson, students learn basic computer programming skills by playing the roles of a Mars rover, scientist and engineer to make exploration decisions and accomplish science goals.

Using only pasta and glue, students design a rover that will travel down a one-meter ramp and then travel an additional one meter on a smooth, flat surface.

Students construct balloon-powered rockets to launch the greatest payload possible to the classroom ceiling.

Students make predictions and observations about how ice will melt in different conditions then compare their predictions to results as they make connections to melting glaciers.