This guide has been developed to assist people who would like to run the Big Explosions and Strong Gravity event with their local Girl Scout Council. The event is a one-day event in which a group of Girl Scouts spends their time doing a series of hands-on activities on spectroscopy, cosmic abundances, supernovae, and black holes. Professional scientists, engineers, and graduate students assist with ... Full description.

This guide accompanies an educational wallsheet that uses active galaxies as an engagement to teach selected topics in physical science and mathematics from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Web site. Active galaxies have super-massive black holes in their cores, some of which emit jets of particles and light. It features three curriculum enhancement activities, background information, assessment ... Full description.

Astro-Venture is an educational, interactive, multimedia Web environment highlighting NASA careers and astrobiology research. This guide ? one of four - covers astronomy. Students in grades 5-8 role play NASA occupations and use scientific inquiry, as they search for and design a planet with the necessary characteristics for human habitation. Full description.

Astro-Venture is an educational, interactive, multimedia Web environment highlighting NASA careers and astrobiology research. This guide ? one of four - covers atmospheric science. Students in grades 5-8 role play NASA occupations and use scientific inquiry, as they search for and design a planet with the necessary characteristics for human habitation. Using an online, multimedia module, students ... Full description.

Astro-Venture is an educational, interactive, multimedia Web environment highlighting NASA careers and astrobiology research. This guide ? one of four - covers biology. Students in grades 5-8 role play NASA occupations and use scientific inquiry, as they search for and design a planet with the necessary characteristics for human habitation. Full description.

Astro-Venture is an educational, interactive, multimedia Web environment highlighting NASA careers and astrobiology research. This guide ? one of four - covers geology. Students in grades 5-8 role play NASA occupations and use scientific inquiry, as they search for and design a planet with the necessary characteristics for human habitation. Using an online, multimedia module, students make changes ... Full description.

This educator's guide contains activities relating to the Cosmic Questions national traveling exhibit's theme, our place in space and time-and information about the exhibit. Although the guide complements a museum visit, activities can be used independently from the exhibit. Full description.

This product consists of four classroom activities, lithographs, and teachers guide. Students examine the Hubble Deep Field image and simulate the process astronomers use to count, classify, and identify objects in the image. Full description.

This educator?s guide details activities that allow students to explore magnets and the region of influence around a magnet called a magnetic field. Students learn that magnets exert a force on a magnetically-sensitive object without coming into direct contact with it. Students then create a map of the magnetic influence around the magnet. Full description.

This lesson plan details an activity designed to put students in the role of scientists in analyzing the geological processes that occur on terrestrial planets - i.e. Earth and Mars. Students will use images from NASA?s Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera onboard the Mars Odyssey spacecraft to evaluate the geologic history and present conditions on Mars. This activity will enable students ... Full description.