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This simple hands-on activity demonstrates why the sky appears blue on a sunny day and red during sunrise and sunset.

This is an activity (located on page 131 of the PDF) related to sleep and circadian rhythms as well as space travel.

This activity generates learner excitement about light through the creation of a room-sized rainbow.

In this space science activity, learners explore transits and the conditions when a transit may be seen.

Use this model to demonstrate the goal of NASA's Kepler Mission: to find extrasolar planets through the transit method.

This is a classic exercise for visualizing the scale of the Solar System.

In this quick activity, learners observe how the added sugar in a can of soda affects its density and thus, its ability to float in water.

Use this hands-on activity to demonstrate infrared and thermal radiation.

In this demonstration/experiment, learners discover that different colors and materials (metals, fabrics, paints) radiate different amounts of energy and therefore, cool at different rates.

In this activity, learners explore how light and dark colored objects absorb the Sun's radiations at different rates.

In this activity about the solar system, learners use various light sources to examine ice with different components to understand how NASA studies planets and moons from space.