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

Lead a discussion about asteroids and their physical properties, then have students mold their own asteroids out of clay.

Students explore different types of space missions and observation techniques that scientists use to study distant objects like asteroids.

Students develop spreadsheet models that describe the relationship between the mass of a spacecraft using electric propulsion, the force acting on the spacecraft, and its acceleration.

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

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

Students explore the science behind an intriguing planetary feature by creating saline solutions and then observing what happens when the solutions evaporate. Now updated with findings from Mars!

Students learn to describe meteorites and rocks using candy bars as familiar models.