Space Science

As they calculate elapsed time, students conceptualize patterns in day and night. Specially chosen locations and date ranges scaffold understanding of (1) general patterns in elapsed time, (2) opposite patterns in opposite hemispheres, (3) changing patterns at solstices.

Explore shadows! Kids to explore how Earth's rotation affects them over the course of the day and how its revolution around the Sun affects them over the year. A few other activities are thrown in for fun. Your students will love these hands-on projects.

Now kids can observe moon phases from the comfort of your classroom. As you share thirty consecutive lunar photos, students record them on a calendar. Two informational texts and a sorting activity are also included.

While nighttime viewing would be wonderful, weather and extracurricular activities make it difficult. More importantly, shifts in moonrise and moonset times means that the Moon is not always visible in the night sky. Daily photos solve this problem.

This simple hands-on experiment helps students conceptualize apparent magnitude, or brightness of stars. Using flashlights, they use science practices to compare two similar beams of light at different differences. An additional activity lets them investigate smaller and larger flashlights at the same distance.

Ready to teach about solar and lunar eclipses? A moveable model, teaching tips, reading passages and questions let you teach science like a pro! Your students will love the hands-on activities. You’ll love how quickly they understand complex concepts.

Three hands-on projects ask students to show scale (size and distance), location, and motion of planets. Then they analyze pictures and a website to determine pros and cons of other solar system models.

Sixteen simple trading cards help kids conceptualize objects and scale in the solar system. They learn about the Sun, inner and outer planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and meteors. Then they compare and contrast with a Venn diagram, questions, and graphs.

Students use a model of the Earth, Sun, and zodiac belt to determine why certain stars and constellations can be seen in different seasons. As they simulate our planet’s orbit, students gather data to reveal patterns.

Kids analyze text and tables to explain relationships between space technology and discoveries. In this real-world investigation, they explore scientific data and make connections between inventions, size, distance, and discovery.

Kids learn about the moon, explore the Apollo 11 mission, and complete an astronaut research project with this fabulous bundle. They navigate a student website to learn all about NASA's first manned mission to land on the moon. Then they research astronauts of the Apollo missions. As a bonus, you'll also receive two one-page information sheets about the moon and its phases.