Activities/Curriculum

Aeronautics, Space Exploration, etc.

Spacelink - On-line Educational activities http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/On-line.Educational.Activities/ Nine sets of activities for grades K-8.

Solar System

Destination Mars http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/sn/outreach/activities/destmars/destmars.htm Activities about Mars in Adobe Acrobat.

Exploring Planets in the Classroom http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/SPACEGRANT/class_acts/index.html Hands-on science activities from University of Hawaii. Mostly Planetary Science and Geology.

Live from Earth and Mars http://www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/index.html More than just activities, also includes workshop materials and teacher/student projects.

Mars Exploration Curridulum http://marsnt3.jpl.nasa.gov/education/modules/webpages/curriculumwelcomepage.htm More activities about Mars

Reaching for the Red Planet http://lyra.colorado.edu/sbo/mary/redplanet.html Curriculum for grades 4-6.

Galileo Mission Education Modules http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo/webflier.html Activites relating to Jupiter and it's moons.

Comet Recipe http://whyfiles.org/011comets/crecipe.html Make a comet in your classroom.

General Astronomy

Good Astronomy Activites on the WWW http://www.aspsky.org/education/astroacts.html from Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Space and Astronomy http://inspire.ospi.wednet.edu:8001/curric/space/index.html Lesson plans for all astronomy, but with most activities about the solar system.

Astronomy with a Stick http://www.nsta.org/programs/sst/aws/Default.htm Solar Astonomy

NASA/MSU-Bozeman CERES Project Educational Activities http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/EdActivities.html For grades K-12 following the NASA themes.

Electromagnetic Spectrum

Studying the Radio Spectrum in the Classroom http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/radiousa/radiousa.html Activities about the radio part of the electromagnetic spectrum that astronomers use to study the universe.

Infrared Activities http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/Outreach/Edu/activities.html List of Links to activies about the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Debunking PseudoScience

Activities about Astrology http://www.aspsky.org/astro/act3/astrology.html Demonstrate the difference between Astromony and Astrology and that Astrology is not a science with these great activites from the Astromonical Society of the Pacific.

General

Practical Uses of Math And Science (PUMAS) Home Page http://pumas.jpl.nasa.gov/ Collection of one-page examples of how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes can be used in interesting settings, including everyday life.

J. Rathbun

Last modified: Tue Apr 17 09:43:51 MST 2001