Students learn how waves are used in communication with spacecraft and practice communicating using a similar process.

Lead a discussion about asteroids and their physical properties, then have students mold their own asteroids out of clay.

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

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 create a scale model of the solar system using beads and string.

In this lesson, students use their knowledge of moon phases to build a calendar they can use to find out when and where to see each phase of the Moon throughout the year. Calendar for 2023 now available for download!

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

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.