Students use playdough to model how Earth’s crust is bent and folded by tectonic plates over geologic time.

Students explore practical applications of exponents and division to investigate what it takes for NASA spacecraft to travel deep into the solar system using only solar power.

In this activity, students learn how light and energy are spread throughout space. The rate of change can be expressed mathematically, demonstrating why spacecraft like NASA’s Juno need so many solar panels.

Students model different densities of Jupiter’s moon Europa to investigate what might lie beneath the icy surface.

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

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!

In this illustrated problem set, students use pi to detect frost in lunar craters, determine the density of Mars' liquid core, calculate the powered output from a dam, and find out how far a spacecraft travels as it returns data to Earth.

In this illustrated math problem, students use the mathematical constant pi to calculate the area covered by a laser used to detect frost on the Moon's surface.

In this illustrated math problem, students use the mathematical constant pi to determine the density of Mars' liquid core.