AESP Educational Toolkits

NASA curriculum guide exploring meteorites and their origins with inquiry activities.

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EG-2001-01-005-GSFC

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Student handout to accompany teacher's guide.  Also available in Spanish

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Accompanies 21st Century Explorer newsbreak, "What will replace the space shuttle?" Also available in Spanish.

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Math activity for students using Lunar statistics. Intended as a DLN enabled interactive competition.

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Undated but pdf was created in 2001. 25 activities. Unclear whether it has been through NASA's review process.

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Presentation of various meteorites and craters from around the world and on other planets.  Also includes information on comets and asteroids.  

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Script for presenter to follow for the "Field Trip to the Moon" exercises.

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PowerPoint presentation on the formation of the moon with notes.  Created by Dr. Stephanie Shipp from the Lunar and Planetary Institute.

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This lithograph set contains images of all planets, the sun, selected moons, asteroids, and other small bodies in our solar system.

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An activity that scales our solar system with common objects we see around our homes. (Note from Bill, 4-2-08: Although MESSENGER put this on their website, the activity is actually from Journey Through the Universe, a different project altogether) K-2

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Measuring the sun using a solar pinhole camera is a great science and math activity. Make a simple pinhole camera, make simple measurements, and use a ratio to solve for the Sun diameter. Includes - Solar science, earth science, astronomy, math.

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Students will understand the scale of size, distance between objects, movement, and apparent motion (due to
Earth’s rotation) of objects in the universe and how cultures have understood, related to and used these objects in the night
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This activity utilizes solar system images of the planets, sun, moons, and small bodies to develop memory skills and solar system content.

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Is there liquid water on Mars? By experimenting with water as it changes state and investigating some effects of air pressure, students not only learn core ideas in physical science but can deduce the water situation on Mars by applying those concepts.

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This quicktime animation shows the Deep Impact probe impacting the comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005

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pre-test / post-test that can be used in solar system workshops.

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PowerPoint presentation created by the Lunar and Planetary Institute for use in teacher workshops.  Compares basic statistics between the Earth and Moon.  Also contains presenter notes. 

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Use faux rocks made with clay and beads to simulate rock identification. Since ratios are used, it also works well with math sessions. Keywords: Earth science, Moon, Lunar, Rocks, Math

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This activity explores the definitions of objects in our solar system and helps students understand what characterisitics make a planet. It includes science, mathematics, and debate.

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Check sheet of lunar features visible from Earth.

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Educator guide on the Cassini Equinox mission to Saturn.  Integrates science and language arts.  For grades 3-4.

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Focuses on parts of the Solar System that do not get much attention: the small bodies of the Solar System, namely asteroids, meteoroids, and comets.

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Produced for the New Horizons Mission. "Students explore how a stellar occultation occurs, how planetary atmospheres can be discovered, and how planetary diameters can be determined using actual light curves from stellar occultation events."

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Back of the child height Growth Chart produced by JHU/APL for the New Horizons Mission.  Contains activities involving Solar System scale.

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This Power Point, from LPI, is a 3D tour through the solar system using imagery new and old.  Version 3 here is compressed to 96 dpi (8 MB). Hi res version (22 MB) can be downloaded from LPI.

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activity demonstrating how small bodies like the moon can eclipse larger bodies like the sun using space science and mathematics measurements.

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activity that demonstrates parallax in astronomy by using your thumb in front of your eyes

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"NASA and "Design Squad" have developed the On the Moon educator guide. The guide brings hands-on engineering and the adventure of space exploration to life for students. The activities are related to the LRO and LCROSS missions."

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NASA Mission Geography activity focusing on similar physical features on Earth and Mars comparing images taken of locations on both planets.

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"The Guide includes an innovative collection of puzzles,
pictures, poetry, and projects, all designed to stimulate
enjoyable co-learning experiences between kids aged
6-13 and the caring adults in their lives." Produced by the Space Science Institute.

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PDF of Solar System modeling activities.  Includes lessons "Modeling Orbits in the Solar System," "Modeling Sizes of Planets," "Looking Inside Planets," and "Search for a Habitable Planet."

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Discovery Program's educational program.  Recommended by Jackie Allen (Lunar Planetary Institute).  Accompanying video can be streamed online.

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PDF Methane in the Martian Atmosphere.  Produced by Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. 

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PDF of Mercury Volcanism. Produced by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society.

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Produced by the ASU Mars Education Program in cooperation with JPL. This document explains bckground information to the teacher, but does not have the actual activities described within it.

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Game mat to go with the Marsbound! activity.

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Back of poster comparing Earth and Mars

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PDF overview of all the Genisis: Search for Origins Mission educational modules. Includes standards an links.

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PDF of Genisis: Search for Origins educational module "Concentrate."  Includes teacher guides and student activities. 

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Second version of the Voyager poster.  Includes facts and science and mathematics activities on reverse side. Poster can be downloaded in 8 X 11.5 format.

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Fact sheet on all the Mariner Missions

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Fact sheet for the Magellan Mission to Venus.

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Fact Sheet for the Mars Global Surveyor

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Fact Sheet of Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner.

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JPL's Mars Education Program.  Module seems a bit dated but usefull with adaptation.

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These activities comprise a series of 20 practical mathematics applications in space science. The one-page assignments are accompanied by one-page teachers guides with answer keys.

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Educational module comparing the settlement of Jamestown, VA to space exploration. 

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Background information and set of lessons that lead to the use of the Marsbound Mat and Cards.

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