This book presents 49 space-related math problems published weekly on the SpaceMath@NASA site during the 2011-2012 academic year. The problems utilize information, imagery, and data from various NASA spacecraft missions that span a variety of math skills in pre-algebra and algebra.

Join Joe as he embarks on an exploration of space in this episode of Super Science Show with Joe. Accelerate your way through the planets and take a closer look at our solar system. Learn how to design and build your own rockets at home- straw rockets- and launch them.

Do you think you know everything about the planets?? Come see how strong of a password you can make for the planets!

The Sunspotters program of the Student Observation Network (SON) is excellent for grades K +12. There are activities for all grades available. You or your students may think of other questions to investigate that can lead to open inquiry by using live and archived data. By collecting and analyzing real-time data from student telescopes, professional observatories, and NASA satellites, they can carry out the same duties as NASA researchers!

In Sunspotters you will learn:

How to instruct students in the construction and use of simple solar telescopes to observe sunspots and to predict which sunspots are most likely to produce solar flares or coronal mass ejections,

How to enable students to obtain and interpret data from ground-based professional observatories,

How to enable students to obtain and interpret data from NASA satellites.

While 4th grade students are learning about space, this is a great resource to enhance students’ understanding of the solar system.

Which is better? Let’s track the differences between collecting weather data outside and collecting the weather online? What will we notice? Then you’ll get the chance to play weather reporter and report on all the data you collected.

Browse samples of USGS maps that are popular with educators. Order paper copies through this site. Where available, links are provided to pdf versions that can be freely downloaded. (Navigate to this site on your own by going to the USGS Store and clicking on "Education Products")

Use these sites to find A map!

Education "Map Catalog"-Browse USGS paper maps that are favorites with educators.

Free Digital Topographic Maps-Download free digital maps or purchase paper maps

Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)-Database of all Federally recognized names of geographic features

This Dynamic Planet-World map of volcanoes, earthquakes, impact craters, and plate tectonics — our most popular map!

A Tapestry of Time and Terrain-Ages of rocks combined with elevation — an excellent teaching tool

National Geologic Map Database-Search for geologic maps

The National Map-Create and download your own high-resolution maps — best for advanced students

Geospatial Data and Mapping Websites-A PDF with links to the best USGS sources for geospatial data

This is a set of three, one-page problems about the sizes of moons in the solar system. Learners will use decimals to compare the sizes and distances of Saturn's moons to the center of Saturn. Options are presented so that students may learn about the Cassini mission through a NASA press release or by viewing a NASA eClips video [4 min.] about these and other moons in our solar system. This activity is part of the Space Math multi-media modules that integrate NASA press releases, NASA archival video, and mathematics problems targeted at specific math standards commonly encountered in middle school.

This activity demonstrates how to import data from the Internet and make EXCEL graphs. The instructions included were provided by a classroom teacher who used these instructions with high school students.

Lesson length: 2-4 hoursGrade level: 6-8Students build models of four different biomes: forest, tundra, grasslands, and dessert. Student groups build a biome and then model climate and weather in the biome, as well as the impacts of human development and engineering mitigations in the biome.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1657263. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Teachers and students can learn how to put together a Microcontroller Kit with an environmental conditions sensor that measures temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and could be used for multiple experiments and shared collectively amongst departments or schools.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1657263. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Teachers and students can see an example of how to put together a Microcontroller Kit with a Temperature sensor that could be used for multiple experiments and shared collectively amongst departments or schools.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1657263. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Lesson Length: 1-2 hoursGrade Level: 6-8Students learn about relationships between earth and space including elements of our solar system, gravity, escape velocity, and space exploration though a breakout box experience. They solve clues about space and conditions needed to support life on a planet and perform tests related to space travel. Clues for opening locks on the breakout box are purposefully challenging to simulate the struggle engineers often grapple with when problem solving.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1657263. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

 This assessment fulfills the requirements for grade 3 science Earth Space Systems for the local alternative assessment. 3S-ESS4  The student will investigate and understand basic patterns and cycles occurring in nature. Key concepts include:c. plant life cycles. 

This is a lesson for students to explore the different layers of the atmosphere and see how altitude affects the air pressure and temperature.  At the conclusion of the virutal lab, the students will complete a CER.

During the Coronovirus, many museums were shut down. I have been given permission by the Virginia Museum of Natural History to use their pictures of their fossils and exhibits in this virtual museum. Student can access this on their chromebook or pc. The displays are inquiry based and students are encouraged to fill in the attached worksheet as they tour the museum. 

The Virginia Museum of Natural History has given permission for pictures of fossils and their exhibits to be used in this virtual museum. Students can examine the latest exhibits on the Cretaceous Seaway and ask why was it there over the United States 87 million years ago. What are the oldest fossils in Virginia. They can examine evidence from Catawba Mountain just West of Roanoke to formulate hypotheses as to way so many marine species perished 450 million years ago. 

This is a set of three, one-page problems about calculating the volume of objects. Learners may calculate the volume of an asteroid, Vesta, or the stacking of satellites inside an atlas V rocket nose cone. Options are presented so that students may learn about the Dawn mission to asteroid Vesta through a NASA press release or about NASA's investigation of comets by viewing a NASA eClips video [5 min.]. This activity is part of the Space Math multi-media modules that integrate NASA press releases, NASA archival video, and mathematics problems targeted at specific math standards commonly encountered in middle school.

This is a 5E Lesson introducing 6th grade students to the concept of a watershed and allows them to locate and identify the watershed they live within.It addresses the following standards:  6.8 The student will investigate and understand that land and water have roles in watershed systems. Key ideas include a) a watershed is composed of the land that drains into a body of water; b) Virginia is composed of multiple watershed systems which have specific features

General information regarding setting up a weather station and including a student weather journal to use in predicting weather patterns.