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.

Quickly and easily model how colors reflect, absorb, and interact with each other in the classroom or online using your computer’s camera.

Students model the position of the planets around the Sun and then model viewing them from Earth on any given date.

In this illustrated problem set, students use pi to compare the sizes of Mars landing areas, calculate the length of a year for a distant solar system object, measure the depth of the ocean from an airplane, and determine the diameter of a debris disk.

Explore space and science activities that students can do with NASA at Home, including video tutorials for making rockets, Mars rovers, Moon landers, and more.

Students join teenager Hannah on a trip through the solar system in this stellar musical about the planets, moons, asteroids and space.

Students balance circular and gravitational forces to create a model of an object in orbit.

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. 2024 calendar now available!