Learn Science with NASA

NASA invites learning facilitators and educators of all kinds to explore this collection of resources and activities to help you incorporate the wonder of NASA science into your learning environments. Browse the grade-levels linked below and get: 

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Early Elementary (Grades K-2)

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• What do the ABCs look like from Space?! Students can notice, wonder, and practice their observation skills with these amazing images of clouds, plants, and storms that form shapes reminiscent of letters. Video version here. 
• Get colorful with these NASA coloring pages for those creative classroom times. 
• Prefer to color online? Try the Color Nature with Nebula Game or Color Your Universe by finding hidden space objects.
• NASA Space Place has gathered this amazing collection of Posters, Lithos, Postcards, & Bookmarks.
• Space missions and rocket science don't have to be hard! Whether you’re a curious kid or a grown-up with big questions, NASA Astrobiology Program’s new Explain It Like I’m Five series breaks down the science of astrobiology in a fun, easy way.

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• Elementary GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment): Using a storybook approach, these modules introduce students to various aspects of Earth system science through storytelling, observations, and measurement of their surrounding environment. Translated versions available in Arabic, French, German, Norwegian, and Spanish.
• NASA Space Place enriches elementary-aged learning of space and Earth science through fun online games, hands-on activities, informative articles and engaging short videos. With material in both English and Spanish and resources for parents and teachers, NASA Space Place has something for everyone!
• Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms - Free Resources from NASA and PBS LearningMedia: Explore images, videos, interactive games, and more. Use these resources to engage students in science practices with key phenomena.

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• Every NASA mission starts with a creative idea about how to explore something in a new way. Take the NASA Space Place Art Challenge and have students make art and use their imaginations! 
• Seasons Module from Elementary GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment): The hummingbirds have stopped visiting the school garden and it's up to students to figure out why. In this story, students will observe the environment's seasonal changes and how they affect the local wildlife by making observations and writing in a science journal. Activities include, All Year Long, and, The Colors of the Seasons.
• Students use an interactive model to gather evidence about the Pattern of the Moon's Changing Appearance. Students then use this evidence to record and make predictions about the Moon’s appearance in the sky.

Upper Elementary (Grades 3-5)

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• NASA Space Place has gathered this amazing collection of Posters, Lithos, Postcards, & Bookmarks.
• Virtual Backgrounds for Educators: Tired of using the same old virtual background? Try out these fun, Earth data backgrounds from My NASA Data and NASA's Science Explorers Poster Series!
• If your learners would like to color some Martian landscapes or the surface of the asteroid Bennu, which returned samples for study on Earth, integrate these Astrobiology Coloring and Drawing Pages into your classroom activities.

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• NASA eClips provides educators with standards-based videos, educator guides, engineering design packets, and student opportunities for students in grades 3 to 12. Offerings cover a wide variety of topics that include energy, the Moon, clouds, sound, and more! Educator guides help teachers effectively use videos in the 5E lesson model and are aligned to national standards for science, math, and technology. 
• My NASA Data supports students and teachers in analyzing and interpreting NASA mission data for learning about Earth systems with lesson plans about the Atmosphere, the Biosphere, the Hydrosphere, the Geosphere, the Cryosphere, and Earth as a System.   
• Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms - Free Resources from NASA and PBS LearningMedia featuring images, videos, interactive games, and more. Use these resources to engage students in science practices with key phenomena.   
• Elementary GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment: Using a storybook approach, these modules introduce students to various aspects of Earth system science through storytelling, observation, and measurement of their surrounding environment. Translated versions available in Arabic, French, German, Norwegian, and Spanish. Search individual activities here.
• All Learners can be Scientists and Engineers! In PLANETS units, learners in grades 3-8 engineer technologies like optical filters and use them to answer scientific questions like "Where was water on Mars?" Activities are designed to empower all learners and show that they can be scientists and engineers.

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• With these interactive expeditions from Astromaterials Research & Explorations Science (ARES), learners can explore photographs of Earth taken by astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) or take their first steps in making discoveries by learning how to classify Moon rocks!
• Earth System Module from Elementary GLOBE: The hummingbirds have stopped visiting the school garden and it's up to students to figure out why. In this story, students will observe the environment's seasonal changes and how they affect the local wildlife by making observations and writing in a science journal. Activities include Earth System in a Bottle and We're All Connected: Earth System Interactions.
• NASA Space Place enriches elementary-aged learning of space and Earth science through fun online games, hands-on activities, engaging short videos, and an art challenge. With material in both English and Spanish and resources for parents and teachers, NASA Space Place has something for everyone!
• Visualize waves with an interactive tool that allows students to control the direction of wave disturbance. Partner with this NASA resource introducing electromagnetic waves, their behaviors, and how scientists visualize these data. Come and explore the amazing world beyond the visible!

Middle School (Grades 6-8)

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Add some “space” to your classroom with free NASA Science posters, science notebooks, and other inspiring printables and visuals.

• Make your classroom out-of-this-world with a Solar System and Beyond Poster Set from NASA (also makes a great wallpaper image for your smartboard or projector). 
• Looking for a more art-integrated STEAM approach? Check out the Visions of the Future Poster Series.  
• Virtual Backgrounds for Educators: Tired of using the same old virtual background? Try out these fun, Earth data backgrounds from My NASA Data and NASA's Science Explorers Poster Series! 
• NASA scientists, futurists, and artists dreamed up these Exoplanet Travel Bureau posters where you can tour the galaxy and imagine life on another world, with guided tours in English and Spanish.  

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• Curious about microorganisms that thrive in conditions that we would find intolerable, or even lethal? Curl up near your favorite deep sea thermal vent or in your sulfury rock and play with these Life in the Extremes Astrobiology Extremophile Trading Cards. 
• This inquiry-based, hands-on Extrem-O-Philes in the Classroom! lesson engages students to learn how scientists use Earth-based bacteria that live in Earth’s most extreme environments to understand the potential for life on Mars.
• My NASA Data supports students and teachers in analyzing and interpreting NASA mission data for learning about Earth systems. Explore their lesson plans about the Atmosphere, the Biosphere, the Hydrosphere, the Geosphere, the Cryosphere, and Earth as a System. 
• Explore the surface of the Earth with authentic NASA imagery in these Hands-on Activities from NASA Astromaterials for grades 5-12.
• Teaching about eclipses? These mini lessons and activities from My NASA Data bring the phenomena right into your classroom! Pair them with this beautiful card/slide deck on Ways of Knowing Eclipses from NASA’s Night Sky Network. 
• NASA eClips provides educators with standards-based videos, educator guides, engineering design packets, and student opportunities for students in grades 3 to 12. Offerings cover a wide variety of topics that include energy, the Moon, clouds, sound, and more! Educator guides help teachers effectively use videos in the 5E lesson model and are aligned to national standards for science, math, and technology. 
• Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms - Free Resources from NASA and PBS LearningMedia featuring images and videos, interactive games, and more. Use resources to engage students with key phenomena and provide opportunities for them to engage in science practices.  
• Learning Activities from the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program - a great, action-oriented way for your students to approach scientific concepts.
• NGSS-designed digital lessons and explorations that engage middle school students in guided inquiry and authentic science practices are offered through Infiniscope. Browse the rich collection of free ready-to-use content or create personalized lessons and virtual field trips using Infiniscope’s innovative tools and comprehensive training resources. Join the community and get started today.

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• Search for life in the solar system with the Astrobiobound! game. Explore how science and systems engineering are integrated to achieve the exciting scientific goal of finding life elsewhere, while playing a simulation that is aligned with Next Generation Science Standards as well as Common Core State Standards and builds 21st century skills.
• An Out-of-this-world Biology Project! Growing Beyond Earth® (GBE) is a classroom-based citizen science project about growing plants in space. Teacher resources help you introduce your students to space plant biology and prepare them to participate in the program, through which students have the opportunity to present their findings to NASA Researchers. Materials in English and Spanish.
• Become an Ecosystem Observer: build student connections to local outdoor spaces and learn to make scientific observations with this 12-step module that includes teacher guides and student pages for every step. Source: GMRI Science Learning Resources
• Empower Your Teaching with Infiniscope’s Active Learning and Creative Tools: Infiniscope offers powerful, free tools that allow educators to design next-generation digital learning activities. Whether you're looking to personalize content or boost learner engagement, Infiniscope has the tools to make it happen. Explore Tour It, a free, browser-based platform for creating immersive, place-based virtual field trips, or try Simple Author to build your own interactive digital learning activities with personalized pathways and real-time feedback. Join their network and start transforming your classroom today!
• Explore Active Digital Learning Experiences with Infiniscope: Kick off the school year with exciting, interactive, active learning resources from Infiniscope! Their digital lessons, virtual field trips, and visualizations are designed to spark curiosity and bring science to life. Aligned with NGSS, each resource is equipped with a 5-E inquiry lesson plan and detailed alignment documents, making it easy to integrate into your classroom. Browse their catalog for ready-to-use content that will inspire and engage students in active learning about Earth and space science, biology, physics, and more.
• All Learners can be Scientists and Engineers! NASA missions are a perfect way to bring together science and engineering. In PLANETS units, learners in grades 3-8 engineer technologies like optical filters and use them to answer scientific questions like "Where was water on Mars?" Activities emphasize NASA planetary science and engineering and are designed to empower all learners and show that they can be scientists and engineers.

High School (Grades 9-12)

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Add some “space” to your classroom with free NASA Science posters, science notebooks, and other inspiring printables and visuals.

• This Women in Science project (scroll down to the “For Educators” section) includes beautiful, inspiring posters and a mini-zine celebrating some of the women who have made significant contributions to science, technology, engineering, and math. 
• Looking for a more art-integrated, STEAM environment in your classroom? Check out NASA's Earth Day Poster series. Each year’s poster includes a video of NASA's Science Mission Directorate Art Director, Jenny Mottar, explaining her inspiration—and the science—behind that year's poster concept and design. See 2024 Poster and Art Director Video here.
• Take a virtual trip to alien worlds, and maybe even plaster your classroom with new, futuristic space tourism posters. View all Visions of the Future posters here.
• With three inquiry-based, field tested activities on the back, this astrobiology poster explores the connection between extreme environments on Earth and potentially habitable environments elsewhere in the Solar System.

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Explore NASA Science lessons and activities to help make your curriculum out-of-this-world!

• Explore the 30-year history of exoplanet discoveries with NASA’s interactive Timeline of the Search for Other Worlds 
• These Astrobiology Learning Progressions support teachers to use the interdisciplinary nature of astrobiology to teach inquiry-based fundamental concepts aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
• My NASA Data supports students and teachers in analyzing and interpreting NASA mission data for learning about Earth systems. Explore their lesson plans about the Atmosphere, the Biosphere, the Hydrosphere, the Geosphere, the Cryosphere, and Earth as a System.
• NASA eClips provides educators with standards-based videos, educator guides, engineering design packets, and student opportunities for students in grades 3 to 12. Offerings cover a wide variety of topics that include energy, the Moon, clouds, sound, and more! Educator guides help teachers effectively use videos in the 5E lesson model and are aligned to national standards for science, math, and technology. 
• Explore the surface of the Earth with authentic NASA imagery in these Hands-on Activities from NASA Astromaterials for grades 5-12.
• The GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) Teacher’s Guide is your go-to resource for activities from the GLOBE Program. Includes scientific background information, data-collection protocols, and learning activities categorized by Earth sphere.
• Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms - Free Resources from NASA and PBS LearningMedia featuring images and videos, interactive games, and more. Use resources to engage students with key phenomena and provide opportunities for them to engage in science practices.
• NGSS-designed digital lessons and explorations that engage high school students in guided inquiry and authentic science practices are offered through Infiniscope. Browse their collection of free ready-to-use virtual field trips and simulation-based interactives, complete with educator resources. Join the community and get started today.

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Launch these activities and lessons to activate science learning!

• The story of Earth’s oceans envelops our home in a context that reaches deep into the universe and places us in a rich family of Ocean Worlds that span Earth, our solar system, and beyond. Dive into this web interactive to learn more about why oceans are vital to the story of life in the universe.
• Engage your learners with all nine issues of the Astrobiology graphic novel series that explores the many facets of astrobiology: the study of the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the Universe, and even how to become an astrobiologist.
• Interact with Real Cosmic Data and Imagery! Data Stories are interactives for high school students that showcase new science imagery and data for a variety of out of this world topics. Ideas for exploration and scientific highlights are included with every story through accompanying video and text.
• Empower Your Teaching with Infiniscope’s Active Learning and Creative Tools: Infiniscope offers powerful, free tools that allow educators to design next-generation digital learning activities. Whether you're looking to personalize content or boost learner engagement, Infiniscope has the tools to make it happen. Explore Tour It, a free, browser-based platform for creating immersive, place-based virtual field trips, or try Simple Author to build your own interactive digital learning activities with personalized pathways and real-time feedback. Join their network and start transforming your classroom today!
• Adaptive Learning and Creative Tools from Infiniscope empower educators to develop next-generation, digital, adaptive learning experiences. Infiniscope provides free content and creative tools to educators who want to personalize learning for their middle and high school students. Join their network and get started here.  
• An Out-of-this-world Biology Project! Growing Beyond Earth® (GBE) is a classroom-based citizen science project about growing plants in space. Teacher resources help you introduce your students to space plant biology and prepare them to participate in the program, through which students have the opportunity to present their findings to NASA Researchers. Materials in English and Spanish.
• Explore Active Digital Learning Experiences with Infiniscope: Kick off the school year with exciting, interactive, active learning resources from Infiniscope! Their digital lessons, virtual field trips, and visualizations are designed to spark curiosity and bring science to life. Aligned with NGSS, each resource is equipped with a 5-E inquiry lesson plan and detailed alignment documents, making it easy to integrate into your classroom. Browse their catalog for ready-to-use content that will inspire and engage students in active learning about Earth and space science, biology, physics, and more.
• Adaptive Digital Learning Experiences from Infiniscope: Designed for and aligned with NGSS, these on-demand interactive resources include an educator mode (toggle on at the top of the page) for access to the entire suite of educator resources for each lesson or collection.
• Create customized virtual field trips and intelligently-tutored digital lessons tailored to your curriculum with Infiniscope’s easy-to-use tools and comprehensive training resources. Implement place-based learning and personalize content to deliver unique and engaging educational experiences. Join the community for free access.