Students build a spectrometer using basic materials as a model for how NASA uses spectroscopy to determine the nature of elements found on Earth and other planets.

In this intermediate-level programming challenge, students use microdevices along with light and mirrors to build a relay that can send information to a distant detector.

Students code microcontrollers to send and receive radio signals, simulating communications between Earth and spacecraft.

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.

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

Students develop a model to represent the collision of two black holes, the gravitational waves that result and the waves' propagation through spacetime.

Students kinesthetically model the mathematics of how NASA communicates with spacecraft.