In this board-game lesson, students learn basic computer programming skills by playing the roles of a Mars rover, scientist and engineer to make exploration decisions and accomplish science goals.

Students build a solar oven and learn about the importance of solar energy for establishing a lunar base.

Student teams use the engineering design process and everyday materials to design an insulator that will keep a small amount of water from rapidly changing temperature.

Students use microcontrollers and temperature sensors to measure the flow of heat through a soil sample.

These 60-second videos answer some of the most frequently asked questions about our planetary neighbor, Mars, and the spacecraft that explore it.

Students learn about Earth processes by simulating and examining lava flows from a volcano model made of play dough.

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

Students try to determine the interior makeup of an egg (hard-boiled or raw) based on their understanding of center of mass and Newton’s first law of motion.

Using the fundamental criteria for life, students examine simulated extraterrestrial soil samples for signs of life.