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In this activity, learners discuss and investigate how cameras, telescopes, and their own eyes use light in similar ways.

In this activity, learners experiment with shadows and light sources to understand the relationship between the angle illumination and the shadow's length.

In this activity described on pages 2-3 of the PDF, participants debate whether there there's life elsewhere in the universe.

Space telescopes can offer us better, clearer views of the universe (and of our own planet) than Earth-based telescopes can, but getting these large, delicate pieces of equipment into orbit is tricky.

In this group activity, learners will mark important developments of life on Earth on a timeline (each foot in length representing 200 million years).

This demonstration activity models how Venus appears from Earth.

In this activity, learners make flipbooks of drawings showing the progression of a Total Solar Eclipse.

Learners listen to and try to decipher a radio message that was sent from Earth to possible intelligent civilizations.

This is an activity to do when there is a solar eclipse!

In this activity, learners discover that one way to cool an object in the presence of a heat source is to increase the distance from it or change the angle at which it is faced.

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

Many people think the different stages in the life of a star are actually different types of stars, rather than just stages in the life of a single star.

In this tabletop board game, players will represent a team of scientists and engineers sending a spacecraft on a mission to space.

In "Exploring the Solar System: Stomp Rockets," participants learn about how some rockets carry science tools—not scientists—into space, and how a special kind of rocket called "sounding rockets" can

In this activity, learners analyze a fictionalized report of life on Mars, based on a real NASA satellite photo, and explore how to separate scientific fact from fiction.

In this activity, learners work together to interpret an "alien message." The group pretends that this is the only message from an imaginary civilization, so there is no "key" and thus no "correct" wa

In this activity, learners will create their very own constellation.

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

In this activity, learners investigate the concepts of relative size and distance by creating a basic model of the solar system.

In this activity, learners plan and create a 24-foot long, two-dimensional model of our solar system, and compare and contrast the differences between planets and the sun.