Students modify a paper cup so it can zip down a line and drop a marble onto a target

Whip up a moon-like crater with baking ingredients as a demonstration for students.

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 build their own comet models using craft materials.

Students use art to describe and recognize the geology on planetary surfaces.

Build an icy model of a comet out of dry ice -- complete with shooting jets! -- as a demonstration for students.

In this cross-curricular STEM and language arts lesson, students learn about planets, stars and space missions and write STEM-inspired poetry to share their knowledge of or inspiration about these topics.

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

In this illustrated problem set, students use pi to determine the size of a Mars dust storm, estimate the water content of a rain cloud, gauge how much Jupiter's Great Red Spot has shrunk and calculate the strength of a laser used to explode ice samples.