 | Mission Patch Design Event
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8
For every space flight, the astronaut crew designs their own mission patch. Included in the patch design are various elements describing the different phases of that particular mission? The names o ...
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 | A View from the Top: Looking at Earth from Space
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8,9-12
Many of us have seen photos of the Earth taken from the Space Shuttle and have marveled at their beautiful vistas. Such imagery will continue to be collected as the International Space Station beco ...
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 | America's Spaceport: John F. Kennedy Space Center
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8,9-12
John F. Kennedy Space Center has launched ALL U.S. Human Spaceflight Missions. Preparing a vehicle to liftoff into space requires a special location, massive facilities, unique equipment and tools, ...
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 | Apollo Revisited
Grade Levels: K-12
As NASA seeks to return to the Moon in 2018, what are the lessons learned from the Apollo Program that need to be considered and what questions were left unanswered? This module looks in-depth at the ...
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 | Asteroids
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8,9-12
Asteroids present a beautiful, ancient, and potentially Earth-damaging element to our Solar System. Many formed during the beginnings of our Solar System 4.5 billion years ago, and all of them have ...
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 | Astronomy: Bringing the Past to Light
Grade Levels: 5-8
Join us as we explore the history of telescopes from the early Galilean refractor to the future generation of NASA's space-based telescopes, with a special focus on the Hubble Space Telescope. Stu ...
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 | Can a Shoebox Fly Challenge
Grade Levels: 5-8,9-12
Join NASA in this a unique design challenge in which your students will apply theoretical knowledge with design limitations to produce a working glider model. Students will ...
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 | Career Exploration (for NASA Explorer Schools)
Grade Levels: 4,5,6,7,8,9
Students meet, interview, and learn about their NASA partner's career.
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 | Cars in Space
Grade Levels: 5-8,9-12,Post Secondary
Can you drive a car on the Moon? Will a car work on Mars like it does on Earth? What must a car be like to be able to launch it and have it function beyond Earth? If you were part of an interplanetary ...
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 | Daring Women in Aviation
Grade Levels: 5-8,9-12
Since the earliest days of flight, women have played a major role in
the history of aviation. From Harriet Quimby and Katherine Stinson
who's flying careers began just after the Wright brothers' fir ...
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 | Discover NASA and You
Grade Levels: 5-8,9-12,4
Through the use of pictures, narratives, animations, historical evidence, thought provoking scenarios, and questions & answers, this program will heighten students' interest in NASA while focus ...
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| DLN Overview & Program Showcase
Grade Levels: K-12
NASA's Digital Learning Network opens doors for interaction between NASA experts and students. We are pleased to offer a unique selection of learning events and challenges. Primarily a videoconfere ...
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| DLN Overview (NASA Langley Events)
Grade Levels: K-12
NASA Langley Research Center's Digital Learning Network opens doors for
interaction between NASA experts and students. We are pleased to offer
a unique selection of learning events and challenge ...
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| Earth According to WORF
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8,9-12
This program has been replaced with "A View from the Top: Looking at Earth from Space ...
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 | Flight in Earth's Skies
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8,9-12
Every part on an airplane is there for a reason. As a pilot you must be able to control your machine in the air in three dimensions. This event will help you see what each of these parts do, how th ...
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 | Galileo: Origins of Science
Grade Levels: 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Students are taught Galileo's law of falling objects; that all objects fall at the same rate in a vacuum. This is difficult to demonstrate in class because vacuums are hard to produce. Students wil ...
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 | HAM It Up: Amateur Radio
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8,9-12
You see it on television: NASA officials contact astronauts on the Space Station through radio hookups. There's another way to keep in touch with crewmembers, though, and anyone with a ham radio syste ...
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 | Humans in Space
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8,9-12
This event focuses on the living environment in space. Participants of this event learn what it is like to live and work in space. Physiological, physical, and mental challenges are presented and part ...
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 | Humans to Mars
Grade Levels: 5-8,9-12,Post Secondary
The videoconferencing event is an overview of NASA's current and future plans to send humans to the planet Mars. It's aim is to correct misconceptions that most students have concerning a mission t ...
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 | Impact Craters: An Investigation Using the Scientific Method
Grade Levels: 4,5,6
The Impact Craters DLN event provides students with an opportunity to apply their knowledge of the scientific method. They will ...
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 | Introduction to Robotics in the Classroom
Grade Levels: 5-8
Come see the future of robotics! Discover how NASA is currently using robots and what is in development for upcoming missions. Compare your vision of robotics with NASA's vision. You will learn ...
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 | LineUp With Math - Proportional Reasoning & Distance-Rate-Time Relationships in Air Traffic Control
Grade Levels: 5-8
Learn how your students can use a free web-based simulator and apply mathematics to explore and solve real-world problems in air traffic control. This professional development event will teach you how ...
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| Living and Working in Space: NASA's Return to the Moon
Grade Levels: K-12
Topics include:
- Distance to the Moon
- Physics of Rocketry
- Micrometeoroids and Space Debris
- What is a Space Station?
- General concerns with Living and Working ...
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| Lunar Nautics: Exciting Exploration for Exceptional Students
Grade Levels: 5-8,9-12
This Event is a Special Event Webcast: October 27, 2008 @ 3:00 pm (Central)
The Lunar Nautics Educator Guide has 40 activities. Students assume roles of workers at Lunar Nautics Space ...
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 | Mission Geography
Grade Levels: 5-8
This Mission Geography lesson is a wonderful activity that can be completed after focusing on any Earth and Space Science unit (volcanoes, earthquakes, etc). It also works well as an extension to a ...
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 | Mission to Mars Challenge
Grade Levels: 5-8,9-12
Join NASA in this unique design challenge where students design their very own Crew Exploration Vehicle or pinpoint the safest and best location for a Mars landing. They will have the opportu ...
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 | Mission to Mars Expedition
Grade Levels: 5-8,9-12
Travel to the Red Planet and discover what it takes to land robotic missions on the uninviting terrain of the Martian soil. Be aware of intense dust storms, huge craters, enormous canyons and ...
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 | Modeling Matters Part Four: Assessing Inquiry
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8,9-12
How do I assess inquiry learning in my classroom?
Exploratorium Institute for Inquiry (1996) developed the following definition: “Inquiry is an approa ...
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| Modeling Matters Part Three: Inquiry in Other Content Areas
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8,9-12
Is inquiry theory appropriate for more than science?
Exploratorium Institute for Inquiry (1996) developed the following definition: “Inquiry is an appr ...
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| Modeling Matters Part Two: The Levels of Inquiry
Grade Levels: Post Secondary
I'm hooked on inquiry - how do I make my traditional lessons move in to the inquiry format?
Exploratorium Institute for Inquiry (1996) developed the followin ...
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| Modeling Matters: What is Inquiry?
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8,9-12
Exploratorium Institute for Inquiry (1996) developed the fol ...
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 | Moon Math
Grade Levels: 5-8
Can you land a spacecraft in the crater of a Moon? Does the distance between the Moon and Earth change during a lunar cycle? These questions and more can be answered by making simple measureme ...
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| NASA Careers
Grade Levels: 5-8
It is wonderful to read about different careers at NASA. But what if you could talk to a person who actually works at NASA? That is exactly what the students participating in this videoconference ge ...
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| NASA eEducation Product Showcase Series: Hubble Space Telescope
Grade Levels: Post Secondary,K-12
NASA education is excited to offer to all educators a series of professional development events that include introductions, demonstrations, and information about new and existing NAS ...
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| NASA eEducation Product Showcase Series: Lunarnautics - Field Trip to the Moon
Grade Levels: Post Secondary,K-12
NASA education is excited to offer to all educators a series of professional development events that include introductions, demonstrations, and information about new and existing NAS ...
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| NASA Engineering Design Challenge: Lunar Plant Growth Chamber
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8,9-12
This professional development module provides an overview of the Lunar Plant Growth Chamber Design Challenge.
Presentation includes:
Information and update on STS-118 Education W ...
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| NASA's 50th Anniversary - Special Event Series
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8,9-12
Special Web Casts (See Links Below) As part of NASA's 50th anniversary celebration, the Digita ...
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 | Next Step Mars
Grade Levels: 3,4,5,6
Imagine a volcano that is three times higher than Mount Everest and covers an area the size of Arizona. During this event, students will learn about the planet Mars and its unusual features. ...
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 | Our Magnificent Sun
Grade Levels: K,1,2
What is the Sun? What are sunspots? Science begins with questions and young children have many. This program, specially designed for a kindergarten through second grade audience, ...
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 | Our Planet Earth
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8
In this videoconference you will learn about the earth with all its varied environments, how its systems interact, and how we gather and use information about the earth from NASA satellites. What if w ...
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 | Our Solar Neighborhood
Grade Levels: 2,3,4
During this event, students will exchange information about our distinctive planets orbiting one massive star, our Sun. They will learn about current NASA missions and how we use the information gathe ...
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 | Planet Hopping: Exploring the solar system with mathematics
Grade Levels: 4,5,6
How high can you jump on Mars? Which planet was discovered in the twentieth century? Find out the answers to these questions and many more as you tour the solar system with NASA. In this highly intera ...
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 | Ratios and Proportions
Grade Levels: 5-8,9-12
The program focuses on how ratios relate two quantities, how their size has meaning, and how they are important at NASA. Aeronautical engineers use ratios and proportions every day. The very ...
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| Reduced Gravity: Effects on the Human Body
Grade Levels: 4,5,6,7,8,9
Long term exposure to a reduced gravity environment can affect the human body. During the event, students will develop an understanding of reduced gravity environments an ...
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 | Return to the Moon Challenge
Grade Levels: 5-8,9-12
Join NASA as we look back at America's national effort to land a man on the Moon. From this historical reference point, you will be given a Challenge to design a new Lunar Base Habitat and ju ...
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 | Rocket Science
Grade Levels: 5-8,9-12
Rocket Science draws on math and science principles to explain to students how rockets operate. Emphasis is placed on Newton?s Laws of Motion and the forces on a rocket as well as such ideas as ce ...
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 | Simple Machines
Grade Levels: 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Simple machines have been used for thousands of years and yet are still the basis for our modern complex machines. Simple machines are devices that are generally used to multiply force at the expense ...
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 | Solar Energy: Its Importance to Earth and Space Exploration
Grade Levels: K-12
Travel through time as we see how solar energy was used in the past, how it is used today, and how it can be used in the future. Learn about the various forms of energy and how they are being ...
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 | Spacebots
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8,9-12
During this event, students will learn how NASA uses robotics technology to a great extent in its exploration of space. Participants will learn how NASA defines robotics, see how robotic systems are a ...
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 | The Moon
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8,9-12
What is it like to be on the Moon? How has the information gained from the historic Apollo missions as well as recent satellite mapping changed our views of our nearest neighbor in space? This present ...
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| The Solar System and Beyond
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8,9-12
What can you learn about objects in our solar system from watching the night sky, either with your own eyes or with a telescope? What do spacecraft tell us about worlds that are millions of miles away ...
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 | The Space Shuttle
Grade Levels: K-4,5-8,9-12
For the last thirty years, the only American spacecraft for carrying humans into orbit has been the Space Transport System (STS) commonly called the Space Shuttle. Current plans are to continue usi ...
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| Toys in Space Investigation
Grade Levels: 5-8
Students connect with NASA and watch the results of the toys in space. In the process of learning about the results the videoconference identifies how exploration and science benefit Earth, the connec ...
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 | Videoconferencing FUNdamentals (EDUCATORS)
Grade Levels: 5-8,9-12
This session covers the technical aspects of setting up and operating a videoconferencing system. Subjects covered: |
and Accessibility Certification