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In "Exploring the Universe: Exoplanet Transits," participants simulate one of the methods scientists use to discover planets orbiting distant stars.

This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity lets learners build a scale model of the universe with little more than adding machine tape.

"Exploring the Universe: Objects in Motion" encourages participants to explore the complex but predictable ways objects in the universe interact with each other.

This fun hands-on astronomy activity lets learners explore models of the Milky Way and other galaxies to get a sense of relative distances to other galaxies.

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

In this activity, learners build a paper model of the spacecraft and photometer (telescope) used during NASA's Kepler Mission.