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In this activity, learners experiment and observe how the color of materials that cover the Earth affects the amounts of sunlight our planet absorbs.

In this outdoor, sunny day activity, learners experiment with paper leaf models to discover how some desert plants conserve water.

This quick demonstration (on page 11 of PDF) allows learners to understand why scientists think water ice could remain frozen in always-dark craters at the poles of the Moon.

In this math-based activity, learners model the intensity of light at various distances from a light source, and understand how astronomers measure the amount of sunlight that hits our planet and othe

In this activity, learners will measure the length of a shadow and use the distance from the equator to calculate the circumference of the earth.

This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity lets learners make 3-dimensional models of the Earth and Moon.