Astronomy Learning Activities

Description:   The NASA’s Beginning Engineering, Science and Technology (BEST) Students Kit was designed to accompany the NASA BEST Students Educator guides, an afterschool engineering club curriculum for students in grade K to 2, 3 to 5 and 6 to 8 (www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/best/index.html).

Description:   Ball, asteroid, 2

Description:   Bring the Cosmos into your hands!

Description:   NewPath’s Our Solar System Curriculum Learning Module provides a complete set of visual, digital and hands-on resources designed to support teacher instruction and provide students with the skills to master key concepts on the Solar System.

Description:   Learn about spaceships and the international space station while creating different models.

Description:   Twenty-one hands-on activities are included in this 176-page spiral-bound book.

Description:   Seasonal changes, the positions of sunrise and sunset and the special circumstances of solstices and equinoxes are easily demonstrated and examined.

Description:   Bring the Moon Into Your Classroom

Description:   Demonstrate the rotational motion of Earth on its axis, its orbit around the Sun, and the revolution of the moon around Earth with this high-quality model.

Description:   Prepare your students for the Great American Eclipse.

Description:   The Project STAR Class Set is designed to accommodate 10 students with numerous astronomy activities that can be used throughout the year, in class or at home.

Description:   This inexpensive star and planet locator allows you and your students to pinpoint the positions of more than 500 stars, constellations, and planets relative to the horizon for the exact hour and date you set.

Description:   Who says you can't lasso the moon? Bring miniature moons on a stick into the classroom to illustrate phases of the moon and how the positions of the Earth, sun, and moon cause each phase. Each Moon Pop consists of a wooden stick supporting a sphere with one black half and one white half.