K-12: Space Grant Initiatives

Intrepid Museum

The Earth Institute at Columbia University: Earth Institute Live

Lesson Plans & Projects for Educators

K-12: NASA Initiatives

NASA STEM Youtube Channel

School may be out for summer, but that doesn't mean a break from learning.

Check out the NASA STEM YouTube channel for hands-on activity videos, science demonstrations from the International Space Station, story time sessions, and more.

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CubeSat Builder Game

A CubeSat is a small, relatively low-cost cube-shaped spacecraft. Schools, universities, and institutions can design CubeSats to explore space in ways that previously required big, expensive satellites.

In the NASA game CubeSat Builder, build as many CubeSat spacecraft as possible in a NASA cleanroom before time runs out! Like a chef preparing food for hungry customers, build CubeSats for engineers according to the project blueprints they send in. Run around the clean room, test CubeSat parts, assemble CubeSats, and perform final tests before sending them off to the launch pad. Juggle the testing of parts while assembling more than one CubeSat at a time to build them faster!

James Webb Space Telescope STEM Toolkit

On Jan. 24, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope successfully reached its final orbit around the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2, nearly 1 million miles away from Earth.

This is a comprehensive toolkit of all things James Webb Space Telescope including videos, lesson plans, and at-home STEM projects for Students and Educators.

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Mars Rovers

Explore NASA’s interactive Mars Exploration Program website to learn more about the rovers, their missions and how to be involved!

Explore Mars Game

NASA Explore Mars Game allows the player to create programmable commands for their rover to collect and inspect objects and navigate through obstacles to complete challenges.

The Astro-Not-Yets: Explore Microgravity

The Astro-Not-Yets learn why things float in space! Read this short story to help young students learn about gravity, microgravity, and the International Space Station.

The Astro-Not-Yets: Explore Energy

Grade Levels: K-4

As the class awaits the landing of a Commercial Crew spacecraft, Mr. Armstrong challenges his students to create their own spacecraft landing system. Follow along as they use teamwork to complete this design challenge, and learn more about the Commercial Crew Program along the way.

Challenge your students to do the “Eggstronaut Parachute Challenge,” where they will design and build parachutes to safely land an egg.

View Space

A free, web-based collection of digital interactives and videos highlighting the latest developments in astronomy and Earth Science.

NASA STEM @ Home for K-4

A collection of STEM engagement tools including hands on activities, problem solving, building workshops, coloring, games and more.

Color with NASA

Download coloring pages related to NASA!

Watch the most recent “Color with NASA” videos to color with different NASA members who worked on what you are coloring!

Learn more about the newest rover Perseverance

Resources for Educators, Parents, and Caregivers

STEM on Station: for educators

Welcome aboard STEM on Station—your connection to the International Space Station. Check out the website to find out how to bring space into your classroom with lesson plans, activities, opportunities, videos, still imagery and the latest station news.

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NASA Comprehensive Learning Unit: Urban Surface Temperatures and the Urban Heat Island Effects

This unit was created as a part of the NASA GISS Climate Change Research Initiative (CCRI), a year-long STEM engagement opportunity for NYC metropolitan area educators and graduate students to work directly with NASA scientists and lead research teams in a NASA research project.

Throughout this unit, students learn how climate is changing in urban settings and produce mitigation solutions for city environmental concerns. Students explore climate simulation models and global temperature profiles; learn about remote sensing and investigate instruments on climate satellites; analyze remote sensing imagery and understand the urban heat island effect; collect land surface temperature and create a physical model that promotes the concept of the urban heat island and mitigation factors to include human action towards climate in urban settings.

Access the Urban Surface Unit here

NAsa’s Universe Of Learning

An integrated astrophysics STEM learning and literacy program, Universe of Learning provides resources and experiences that enable youth, families and lifelong learners to explore fundamental questions in science, experience how science is done and discover the universe for themselves.

Visit NASA'S Universe of Learning

Flip NASA STEM Resources

Did you know you can find NASA STEM resources on Flip? Visit the NASA STEM page to find topics and collections related to NASA's Artemis missions, Earth science, and NASA careers. Teachers can view the topics and assign them to their students, who then record their own videos and audio to share what they've learned.

NASA Wavelength

SpaceMath @ Nasa

A collection of resources that incorporate NASA content and have been subject to peer review. This collection can be searched using key words or the drop down menus such as topic, age, and grade to find the right resources for you.

SpaceMath@NASA introduces students to the use of mathematics in today’s scientific discoveries.

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