Launch into learning with fun, informative NASA STEM resources for students. Play games, watch videos, explore homework help topics, and more. | | Visit the NASA Kids' Club to play games, read about the current space station crew, and more for students in grades K-4. | | NASA Space Place has fun games, hands-on activities, informative articles, and engaging short videos for upper-elementary students. | | Audience: Students in Grades 3-6 Since the 1950s, NASA missions have used radio waves to send data to and from space. Now, NASA missions can rely on optical communication, a technique that uses lasers to send data through another type of wave called infrared light. Help NASA Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) get important data to Earth by playing the new “Relay: Laser-Based Space Communications” video game. Players send information, or data, back to Earth using lasers. Each level has new challenges, and your ultimate goal is to build a communications network and synchronize, or match, the time on atomic clocks. Can you master all five levels? | | | | The GLOBE Observer app lets you help researchers with environmental observations. Be a citizen scientist and learn more about our planet. | | Audience: Undergraduate students Are you interested in trajectory design in cislunar space? Learn how trajectory design works in the Earth-Moon system and multi-body gravity fields in this series of free, online modules. This self-paced course is designed for participants who have taken an undergraduate orbital mechanics class but have little or no experience with gravitational multibody dynamics. Click here for more information and to register. | | professional development hours. | | Event Date: Aug. 22-26 NASA CONNECTS provides access to fun STEM activities for you and your students to engage in the upcoming Artemis I launch to the Moon. Throughout the week of Aug. 22-26, we will be adding new and exciting content, hosting a weeklong trivia contest, and highlighting existing resources related to Artemis. Join fellow CONNECTS educators as we count down to this historic launch together. Not a member of NASA’s online community of practice for educators? Click here to join CONNECTS to stay up-to-date on the latest NASA STEM resources, collaborate with other educators, and gain access to exclusive events. | | Join the NASA Ames Office of the Chief Scientist for upcoming 2022 Summer Series webinars designed for curious learners in high school and up. | | Event Date: Aug. 23 at 2 p.m. EDT Set to launch in 2027, the MUlti-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) will focus on understanding the physical processes that heat the multimillion-degree solar atmosphere, or corona, and drive solar flares and eruptions, poorly understood large-scale events that cause space weather and increasingly impact our high-tech society. Physicist Bart De Pontieu will discuss the mission and how what we learn about our nearest star will help us better understand the habitability of exoplanets around other stars. | | Event Date: Aug. 24 at 2 p.m. EDT In the late 1800s, audio rendering was used in space science for event identification. Later, its usage for mainstream research in space science almost stopped.
Astronomer Wanda Díaz-Merced will discuss the use of sound, either alone or as a supplement to visual display, for the exploration of space science telemetry. We will travel in time to identify what needs to be done right now to better make use of all the human potential to find more discoveries. | | Join an International Celebration | | Audience: Moon Enthusiasts of All Ages Informational Webinar: Aug. 24 at 9 p.m. EDT International Observe the Moon Night is a time to look up with fellow Moon watchers worldwide, learn about lunar science and exploration, and honor our cultural and personal connections to the Moon. Last year, more than 500,000 people participated from 122 countries and all seven continents. Do you want to get involved in this year’s celebration on Oct. 1? Join NASA experts for a live session to get tips for hosting successful International Observe the Moon Night events, large and small. Ask questions and share your own ideas for event planning. Hosts also will discuss opportunities to stay connected throughout the year. Click here to register for the interactive event, or watch the session live on YouTube. | | Are You Up for a Challenge? | | Audience: 9-12 and Higher Education Educators and Students Virtual Information Sessions: Aug. 25 at 10 a.m or 6 p.m. EDT Proposal Deadline: Sept. 8 NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) is accepting proposals for its 2023 competition, which mirrors the goals of the agency’s Artemis missions to the Moon. Each student team is tasked with designing, building, testing, and competing with a human-powered rover capable of traversing challenging terrains and tools for retrieval of planetary samples. Teams earn points by completing design reviews, then successfully completing course obstacles while performing mission tasks on their rover. The challenge will be held April 20-22, 2023, in Huntsville, Alabama. Click here to register for a virtual information session to learn how to successfully write a proposal and increase your team’s chances of being selected. | | Opportunities With Our Partners | |
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Find NASA science resources for your classroom. NASA Wavelength is a digital collection of Earth and space science resources for educators of all levels — from elementary to college, to out-of-school programs. https://science.nasa.gov/learners/wavelength
Check out the ‘Explore NASA Science’ website! Science starts with questions, leading to discoveries. Visit science.nasa.gov. To view the site in Spanish, visit ciencia.nasa.gov. | | Visit NASA STEM Engagement on the Web: | | | | | | |
