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

In this engineering challenge, students must stay within design limitations while creating a balloon and gondola system that can descend or ascend at a given rate or maintain its altitude.

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

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.

In this activity, students use spreadsheet software and their knowledge of scale, proportion and ratios to develop a solar system model that fits on a playground.

Explore space and science activities that students can do with NASA at Home, including video tutorials for making rockets, Mars rovers, Moon landers, and more.