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 design a robotic insect for an extraterrestrial environment, then compare the process to how NASA engineers design robots for extreme environments like Mars.

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

Students perform a simple science experiment to learn how a rocket works and demonstrate Newton’s third law of motion.

Students construct balloon-powered rockets to launch the greatest payload possible to the classroom ceiling.

Students make predictions and observations about how ice will melt in different conditions then compare their predictions to results as they make connections to melting glaciers.

In this lesson, students build a paper helicopter, then improve the design and compare and measure performance.

Students decide what they want to learn from a robotic mission to Mars and what tools they will put on their robot to accomplish their goals.

Students cut out, color and sequence paper rockets in a simple mathematics lesson on measurement.