This webpage provides background information, multimedia resources, and articles related to the Apollo missions.

Students learn about the locations and geology of the six Apollo landing sites.

This video demonstrates how NASA is monitoring the salinity of the oceans and how salinity levels are related to ocean temperature and global climate.

Students will create a beautiful piece of art while learning to recognize the geology on planetary surfaces. In this project-based activity, students use the elements of art - shape, line, color, texture, value - to make sense of images of planets, asteroids, comets, and moons, honing observation skills and inspiring questions.

This article highlights man-made sources of ozone, that contributes to surface global warming.

This animated video shows how NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn uses radio science to "peer" beneath the surface of the hazy moon Titan and study its mysterious lakes.

Students will design and manipulate a Lunar Lander model. Students will use scientific inquiry in order to build their design.

In this STEM lesson, students will participate in an engineering design challenge to design and build a solar box cooker, and test it out to see if it works well enough to make S'mores.

In this activity, students observe changes in shadows over time in order to help develop a sense of Earth's motion.

This article discusses how crops, such as wine grapes, are shifting their harvest times due to climate change.

This interactive explores sea ice, sea level, carbon emissions, and average global temperature over time.

In this STEM lesson, students use the NASA Future Flight Design Challenge activity and website to help them learn how NASA engineers develop and test experimental aircraft to solve a specific problem by using the engineering design process. Students will solve an engineering design challenge based on specific criterion and build and design four paper aircraft based on actual NASA experimental aircraft. They will conduct and test their models and gather data of the results based on the design process and a specific challenge. Lastly, students will evaluate the performance of each aircraft based on engineering requirements.

This presentation is meant to be used in conjunction with the lesson "Discovering Information About Mars." In this lesson, students gain background knowledge about environmental factors on Mars through taking notes while viewing a content presentation. To culminate, they clarify the challenges of living on Mars by generating a list of potential environmental problems.

This article discusses the interaction of El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). Each cycle creates specific patterns of warm and cool water in the Pacific and cause changes in the trade winds, which affect sea levels.

EXERCISING IN SPACE

Algebra 1

Key Topic: Slope, linear equations, direct variation, independent and dependent variables, different representations of a function

Students will identify a direct variation, solve linear equations, and create tables based on the exercise equipment provided for astronauts on long duration missions on the International Space Station (ISS) in order to maintain their fitness to perform mission objectives and to return to Earth without serious health complications.

Students will
identify direct variation from ordered pairs by calculating the constant of variation;
calculate slope from two points using the slope formula;
determine independent and dependent variables;
solve linear equations; and
create tables.

Prerequisites: Students should have prior knowledge of direct variation, the constant of variation, linear functions, different representations of a linear function, the properties of a linear function, calculating slope, and solving linear equations.

In this STEM lesson, students will use a pattern to design and build a robotic rover with cardboard and a balloon. They will investigate the engineering challenges of wheels, speed, and friction while they examine the concept of a prototype in engineering. Students will demonstrate the use of potential and kinetic energy and explain ways the rover can be used in space travel and exploration.

Students design and build a solar water heater and see how big a temperature change they can get.

This resource provides information and activities to help students understand how physical activities can improve physical endurance.