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.

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 simple supplies to model how NASA tracks the location of spacecraft from Earth.

Students model different densities of Jupiter’s moon Europa to investigate what might lie beneath the icy surface.

Students explore the relationship between magnetism and electricity to model how scientists determined that Jupiter's moon Europa has a subsurface ocean.

Students play a strategy card game that requires them to use problem-solving to successfully explore the Moon and Mars. Plus, *NEW* Outer Worlds Expansion Pack now available!

Students use the engineering design process to build a structure to handle the greatest load and gain first-hand experience with compression and tension forces.

In this lab activity, students explore how metal reactivity relates to space exploration and spacecraft design.

In this video lesson, students learn to design, build and launch paper rockets, calculate how high they fly and improve their designs.