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Lesson .
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.
Students learn about and model weather patterns that make Antarctica ideal for scientific balloon exploration.
Teachable Moment .
Get to know GUSTO and learn how to bring the science and engineering behind this unique balloon-based mission into the classroom.
Students learn about the role of dark energy and dark matter in the expansion of the universe, then make a model using balloons.
Students play a strategy card game that requires them to use problem-solving to successfully explore the Moon and Mars.
This demonstration uses a water balloon to show how Earth's oceans are absorbing most of the heat being trapped on our warming world.
Students use global carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration data since to plot major life milestones of themselves, their parents, and grandparents along a curve.
Students construct balloon-powered rockets to launch the greatest payload possible to the classroom ceiling.
Explore how and why the SWOT mission will take stock of Earth's water budget, what it could mean for assessing climate change, and how to bring it all to students.
Student Project .
Find out how NASA uses balloons to explore Earth and space and then take on a challenge to design your own balloon explorer inspired by what you've learned!
Students will learn about the expanding universe and the redshift of lightwaves, then perform their own calculations with a distant supernova.
Students use measurement skills to determine the scale distance to space on a map.
Quickly and easily model how colors reflect, absorb, and interact with each other in the classroom or online using your computer’s camera.
Students learn about scale models and distance by creating a classroom-size Earth-Moon system.
Students gather data on a balloon rocket launch, then create a simple graph to show the results of the tests.
