This 24-page coloring and activity book includes general information on x-ray astronomy, NASA's Chandra mission and the STS-93 mission. It is intended for parents to use with their children. The Chandra mission investigates black holes, supernovae, and galaxy clusters. Activities include a maze, word search, connect-the-dots and word jumble. Full description.

This CD uses song and drama to tell the story of Spirit and Opportunity, NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, and their mission to search for signs of ancient water. It includes an inquiry-based lesson. Full description.

This module includes several lessons aimed at introducing ice science to students. In the first activity, students share personal ice experience stories through drawing, telling, and writing. This enables the teacher to diagnose personal conceptions about ice. Then students explore a big block of ice. They ask and record their questions and start an ice science notebook. Depending on the nature of ... Full description.

This poster uses reading and writing activities to promote science learning. Students start with the lesson Meet Our Solar System and ponder the edge of our understandings in Solar System Mysteries. Teacher tips and resources and student activities are included. It is intended to arouse children-s curiosity about objects in the sky and space exploration and encourage basic awareness of and interest ... Full description.

Leonard Nimoy narrates this animated 13-minute video of NASA's Dawn mission, launched in October 2007. The movie features a look into the planning, instrumentation and technological challenges of this mission into the heart of the asteroid belt. Full description.

This hands-on, food preparation activity is designed to familiarize children with asteroids: what they are, where they orbit, how they formed, what they look like (making mashed potato mixture look like an asteroid), and why we care about them. Introduces NASA's Deep Space 1 mission that flew very close to Asteroid Braille. The Space Place is an educational NASA site for children and adults with activities ... Full description.

This trifold brochure explains the MY NASA DATA project for K-12 educators and citizen scientists. The brochure covers topics such as What is a microset? What kind of microsets are available? Sample Graphs. Educational Resources and Standards. How can I get help? and What is Required? It also provides contact information and guidelines on the various ways to participate in the MY NASA DATA community. ... Full description.

This poster features several of the NASA Earth and Space Science Explorers, plus suggestions for using the series in the classroom. The series of online articles features NASA explorers, young and old, with many backgrounds and interests. Most articles are written for three different reading levels: grades K-4, grades 5-8, and grades 9-12 and up. Full description.

In this activity, which serves as an introduction to an astronomy unit or to a classroom visit by an astronomer or space scientist, students are asked to imagine an astronomer and then draw a picture. In the instructions, no clues are given about the astronomer's race, sex, or age. Students discuss why they drew the pictures they drew and why they have the mental images of scientists that they have. ... Full description.

This resource includes over 88 paper plate activities, where scientists put their research into laymen?s terms and develop paper plate activities that illustrate their respective pursuits. Paper Plate Education asserts that anything worth teaching ought be reducible to a paper plate. This is also known as Paper Plate Reduction. There are lessons in space science, music theory, archeology, celestial ... Full description.