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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 activity, learners will imagine the challenges and opportunities of asteroid mining.

This activity/demo introduces learners to aerogel, a glass nanofoam. Learners discover how aerogel is made and how well it insulates as well as learn about aerogel's other unique properties.

In this activity about living things and gravity (page 5 of PDF), learners design and build an exoskeleton or an endoskeleton for an animal of their own invention.

In this activity (on page 5 of PDF), learners use dry ice and household materials to make scientifically accurate models of comets.

Use this Moon Map Guide to help learners identify features on the Moon, while looking through a telescope.

In this activity (on page 14 of PDF), learners use a pan full of flour and some rocks to create a moonscape.

Using information from the My Place in Space lithograph, learners write and/or draw a postcard to friends and family as if they had gone beyond the interstellar boundary of our Solar System, into the

The Butterflies in Space Teacher's Guide uses "life in space" to encourage learners to conduct their own open-ended scientific investigations.