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Website: NASA Quest
The NASA Quest Website offers a range of online resources for teachers, students, parents, and others, so that the public can share the excitement of NASA's authentic scientific and engineering...
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Learning from the Challenger Tragedy
Twenty five years ago, on January 28, Americans watched in horror as the space shuttle Challenger exploded, barely a minute after takeoff, killing all seven crew members. Schools nationwide still honor...
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Lesson: Get a Lift!
In this lesson, you’ll introduce your students to the four forces of flight -- drag, lift, thrust, and weight -- through a variety of fun flight experiments. Students will “fly” for short periods and...
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Navigating the Wild Blue Yonder
It's easy to find your way to school. Now imagine trying to navigate the skies, with no signs to point you in the right direction. How do pilots find their way? These "pilot training lessons" developed...
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Lesson: How High Can You Fly?
In this lesson, you'll introduce your students to the four forces of flight--drag, lift, thrust, and weight--through a variety of fun-filled flight experiments. Students will "fly" for short periods...
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Feature: Unlimited Space
Many kids dream of exploring space, but few get much further than their schoolyards. This is not true of students in Tekna-Theos, a Florida after-school program bursting with science activities and...
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DIY Space-flight Experiments for High Schoolers
Two Houston engineers have won a competition for low-cost experiments that high school students could send aboard a suborbital space flight. They have designed an inexpensive microgravity spaceflight...
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Activity: Straw-Rocket Aeronautics
In this short fun activity, students of all ages learn about rocket stability by constructing and flying small "indoor" paper rockets, then analyzing flight data and interpreting the results.
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Resource: NASA Webinars
NASA is providing several new webinars for educators, which include hands-on activity demonstrations for specific grade levels. Additionally, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is offering an online...
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MIT+ Offers K-12 STEM Videos
Why do airplanes fly? What is genetic engineering? To help K-12 students and teachers understand such topics, MIT has tapped its 10,000 brilliant young scholars to create engaging, short videos to...
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Fun With Bernoulli
Students in grades 5 to 7 use Bernoulli's principle to manipulate air pressure in a series of fun activities so its influence can be seen on the objects around us.
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Move Like a Shark
Middle school students take on the role of marine biologists to investigate how sharks move in three-dimensional space (3-D). Understanding the mathematics behind shark movement will inform the design...
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