Students use art to describe and recognize the geology on planetary surfaces – now including Mars and asteroids.

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

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

Students explore the relationship between magnetism and electricity to model how scientists determined that Jupiter's moon Europa has a subsurface ocean.

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

Students generate maps and physical models of simulated surface features on Jupiter’s moon Europa while learning how spacecraft make maps using radar.

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

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