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

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

Students model the position of the planets around the Sun and then model viewing them from Earth on any given date.

Students will use the engineering design process to design, build, test and improve a model satellite intended to investigate the surface of a planet.

Using only pasta and glue, students design a rover that will travel down a one-meter ramp and then travel an additional one meter on a smooth, flat surface.

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!

In this illustrated problem set, students use pi to detect frost in lunar craters, determine the density of Mars' liquid core, calculate the powered output from a dam, and find out how far a spacecraft travels as it returns data to Earth.

In this illustrated math problem, students use the mathematical constant pi to calculate how far the TESS spacecraft travels as it sends data to Earth.

Students learn how Mars rovers use spectroscopy to study the chemical composition of rock samples on the Red Planet then model the process in the classroom.