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  Make a CD Saturn

  Everyone loves Saturn! This craft uses unwanted CDs or DVDs and a styrofoam ball to make a model of the planet. 0
  
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  Content Area 

  • Astronomy and Space

  Age Group 

  • Family
  • Early Elementary
  • Upper Elementary
  • Tweens (9-12)

  Time to Complete Activity 

  • 20-40 minutes

  Cost associated with Activity Materials 

  • $1-$5

  Difficulty Level (by content) 

  • Easy
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  Solar System Bead Activity

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   Participants calculate and construct a scale model of the solar system using beads and string. 1814
  
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  Content Area 

  • Astronomy and Space

  Age Group 

  • Family
  • Early Elementary
  • Upper Elementary
  • Tweens (9-12)

  Time to Complete Activity 

  • 40 minutes to 1 hour

  Cost associated with Activity Materials 

  • $1-$5

  Difficulty Level (by content) 

  • Easy
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  Eclipse Chalk Art

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  Use a circular template and chalk to create your very own eclipse art! 1818
  
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  Content Area 

  • Astronomy and Space

  Age Group 

  • Family
  • Pre-K
  • Early Elementary
  • Upper Elementary
  • Tweens (9-12)
  • Teens
  • Adults

  Time to Complete Activity 

  • 10-20 minutes

  Cost associated with Activity Materials 

  • $1-$5

  Difficulty Level (by content) 

  • Easy
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  Dunking the Planets

  Participants place scale models of the planets, represented by fruit and other foods, in water to determine their density. 0
  
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  Content Area 

  • Astronomy and Space

  Age Group 

  • Family
  • Upper Elementary
  • Tweens (9-12)

  Time to Complete Activity 

  • 20-40 minutes

  Cost associated with Activity Materials 

  • $10-$20

  Difficulty Level (by content) 

  • Medium
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  Art and the Cosmic Connection

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  Using NASA imagery, participants use images as inspiration for artwork while learning about geology of planetary bodies and moons 8817
  
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  Content Area 

  • Earth Science
  • Astronomy and Space

  Age Group 

  • Family
  • Early Elementary
  • Upper Elementary
  • Tweens (9-12)
  • Teens
  • Adults

  Time to Complete Activity 

  • 1-2 hours

  Cost associated with Activity Materials 

  • $5-$10

  Difficulty Level (by content) 

  • Medium
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  Why Do Eclipses Happen? (Yardstick Eclipse...

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  Using simple materials, participants explore the vast distance between the Earth and Moon and model how solar and lunar eclipses happen. 9600
  
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  Content Area 

  • Astronomy and Space

  Age Group 

  • Family
  • Upper Elementary
  • Tweens (9-12)
  • Teens
  • Adults

  Time to Complete Activity 

  • 20-40 minutes

  Cost associated with Activity Materials 

  • $5-$10

  Difficulty Level (by content) 

  • Medium
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  How to Build a Galaxy (beta)

  Use craft materials -- and 3D printed models of astronomical models -- to model our Milky Way galaxy. 0
  
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  Content Area 

  • Astronomy and Space

  Age Group 

  • Teens

  Time to Complete Activity 

  • 2-4 hours

  Cost associated with Activity Materials 

  • $10-$20

  Difficulty Level (by content) 

  • Rocket Scientist
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  How Do We Find Planets Around Other Stars?

  Discover the techniques scientists use to find planets orbiting distant stars: use a foam ball, a toothpick, and a small ball of clay. 0
  
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  How-to Video

  Content Area 

  • Astronomy and Space

  Age Group 

  • Family
  • Upper Elementary
  • Tweens (9-12)

  Time to Complete Activity 

  • Under 10 minutes

  Cost associated with Activity Materials 

  • $1-$5

  Difficulty Level (by content) 

  • Easy
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  Nuclear Fusion in Stars

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  This simple and engaging activity explains nuclear fusion and how radiation is generated by stars, using marshmallows as a model. 1455
  
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  Content Area 

  • Astronomy and Space

  Age Group 

  • Family
  • Upper Elementary
  • Tweens (9-12)

  Time to Complete Activity 

  • Under 10 minutes

  Cost associated with Activity Materials 

  • $1-$5

  Difficulty Level (by content) 

  • Easy
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  Coloring the Universe (with Pencil Code)

  Participants use pencilcode.net to undertake a series of simple programming exercises, including recoloring images of scenes, everday objects, and finally, a supernova and a region where stars are forming. 0
  
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  How-to Video

  Content Area 

  • Astronomy and Space

  Age Group 

  • Upper Elementary
  • Tweens (9-12)
  • Teens

  Time to Complete Activity 

  • 1-2 hours

  Cost associated with Activity Materials 

  • $0 ("found" items)

  Difficulty Level (by content) 

  • Rocket Scientist
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  Build a Moon Habitat

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  Astronauts on the Moon must have homes that protect them like no home on Earth would ever need to do. Teams of participants roll sheets of newspaper to create "logs," which are stapled together to frame a "habitat" and "airlock." The structure is covered with a bedsheet and decorated with the NASA logo. 2050
  
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  Content Area 

  • Engineering

  Age Group 

  • Upper Elementary
  • Tweens (9-12)
  • Teens

  Time to Complete Activity 

  • 40 minutes to 1 hour

  Cost associated with Activity Materials 

  • $1-$5

  Difficulty Level (by content) 

  • Medium
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  Future Moon: The Footsteps of Explorers

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  Learners model how impacts throughout the Moon's history have broken rocks down into a mixture of dust, rocks, and boulders that cover the lunar surface. 2060
  
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  Content Area 

  • Astronomy and Space

  Age Group 

  • Family
  • Upper Elementary
  • Tweens (9-12)
  • Teens
  • Adults

  Time to Complete Activity 

  • 10-20 minutes

  Difficulty Level (by content) 

  • Easy