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Earth & Space Science Resources
Websites
NASA: Space Place has fun games, hands-on activities, informative articles, and engaging short videos. There are also Spanish resources.
The earth and space section has lots of interactive activities, games, and hands-on classroom explorations for students.
This is a great website for students to learn about planets, moons, dwarf planets, and more.
Students can watch the International Space Station pass overhead from several thousand worldwide locations.
NASA: Kid's Club is a place for students to play games and do activities all while learning about NASA.
Apps & Virtual Labs
This lab teaches students about the different types of radiometric dating, such as carbon dating.
This app makes it easy to discover the wonders of space. You can see a 3-D map of constellations, stars, planets, and satellites.
This app allows students to create their own constellations and also come up with stories of the constellation they created.
This lab lets students explore solar and lunar eclipses and look at why eclipses occur when they do.
This lab allows students to explore Earth’s ordinary and extreme weather in safety.
Lesson Plans
K-5th grade
Students will use directional color codes to code their way by different parts of a snowman and draw the snowman at the end using the objects they "collected".
3rd-5th grade
In this lesson plan, students learn about the Moon's changing appearance and how orbital motion causes the Moon’s phases.
5th grade
Students will understand
constellation patterns and earth movement by writing and illustrating a legend about a specific constellation.
1st-2nd grade
In this lesson, students will identify and name the layers of the earth.
3rd-5th grade
In this lesson, students will explore their own landscape for evidence to determine whether it has changed or remained the same over time.
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