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Millions of organisms can live in and around a body of water.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners discover the relationship between temperature and pressure in the lower atmospheres of Jupiter and Earth.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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This activity (on pages 23-27) lets learners simulate the work of scientists who take core samples of Earth's rocky layers to determine geological history.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners observe the water cycle in action! Water vapor in a tumbler condenses on chilled aluminum foil — producing the liquid form of water familiar to us as rain and dew.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners test how cornstarch and glitter in water move when disturbed. Learners compare their observations with videos of Jupiter's and Earth's storm movements.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners model hot spot island formation, orientation and progression with condiments.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity (on page 12 of the PDF), learners make a sundial (shadow clock) appropriate for their geographic location in the northern hemisphere and use it to tell time.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 7 days
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In this hands-on and feet-on excursion, learners take a science walk to visualize the planet's immense size and numerous structures, without the usual scale and ratio dimensions found in most textbook

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, two groups of learners create two separate landform models out of clay (mountains and valleys).

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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This is part 2 of the three-part "Crayon Rock Cycle" activity and must be done after part 1: Sedimentary Rocks. In this activity, learners explore how metamorphic rocks form.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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This is part 3 of the three-part "Crayon Rock Cycle" activity. Before starting this section, learners must have completed part 1: sedimentary rock and part 2: metamorphic rocks.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners create volcanoes like those they have examined on Earth and Mars through images taken by spacecraft.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners create channel features with flowing water, comparing their observations to real images of Mars and Earth taken by satellites/orbiters.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this geology activity (page 3 of the PDF), learners simulate an earthquake with little more than an elastic band and drinking straws.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 14 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners use basic measurements of the Earth and pieces of rock and iron to estimate the mass of the Earth.

free Ages 14 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners use sand and ice cubes to create a model of permafrost and the effects of the ice melting through the surface.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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This is part 1 of the three-part "Crayon Rock Cycle" activity. In this activity, learners explore how sedimentary rocks form.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners use a toaster to generate wind and compare the appliance's heat source to Jupiter's own hot interior. Learners discover that convection drives wind on Jupiter and on Earth.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners will simulate the processes of the water cycle at home in a plastic sandwich bag.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 11 1 to 7 days
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In this activity, young learners will make their own flower seed nursery in an egg carton.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - adult 1 to 4 weeks