‘NASA STEM Stars’: Principal Scientist in Materials Development
Product Type: Lesson Plans/Activities Videos
Audience: Educators Students
Grade Levels: 5-8 9-12
Subjects: Careers Matter and Its Pr...‘NASA STEM Stars’: Principal Scientist in Materials Development
Product Type: Lesson Plans/Activities Videos
Audience: Educators Students
Grade Levels: 5-8 9-12
Subjects: Careers Matter and Its Properties
NASA Role Model: Douglas Hofmann=>https://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/metallurgy-facility
NASA Center: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Topic: Materials Scientist
Original Air Date: Aug. 11, 2021
Join NASA principal scientist, Douglas Hofmann, for this episode of “NASA STEM Stars”. As the principal scientist, Hofmann shares his STEM journey that led him to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Find out what it’s like to develop new materials that are used for rockets and spacecraft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYn6jayzqc
STEM Short Activity: Build a Heat Shield=>https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/np-2020-02-2805-hq.pdf
Objective: As a team, design and build a heat shield that will protect the contents (candy) of a crew module (paper cup) from a simulated atmospheric re-entry (hair dryer).
Duration: 1 hour
Materials Needed: Cardboard, index cards, construction paper, etc., hair dryer, scissors, tape, 5 oz paper cups, stopwatch, infrared thermometer, unwrapped snack size candy bars
Difficulty: Moderate
Next Generation Science Standards: MS-PS3-3, PS-ETS1-1
Common Core Math Standards: MP1, MP3
“NASA STEM Stars” is a webchat series. Each chat introduces a science, technology, engineering or math career, addresses a STEM topic and highlights a NASA mission. The chat includes a STEM activity that students can do at home. After the interviews, experts answer students' questions.
Orion: Connect the Dots
Product Type: Play and Learn
Audience: Students
Grade Levels: K-4
Subjects: Human Space Exploration Space Vehicles
Print the puzzle to connect the dots and draw the Orion ...Orion: Connect the Dots
Product Type: Play and Learn
Audience: Students
Grade Levels: K-4
Subjects: Human Space Exploration Space Vehicles
Print the puzzle to connect the dots and draw the Orion spacecraft. Orion will take astronauts to the Moon.
Orion: Connect the Dots=>https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/EP-2014-07-005-JSC-Orion-Connect-the-Dots.pdf
More Coloring Sheets and Puzzles=>https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/about/resources/jscfacts/activity_coloring_sheets.html
Make a CD Hovercraft
Product Type: Hands-on Activities
Audience: Students
Grade Levels: K-4 5-8
Subjects: Engineering Design
Make your own hovercraft using simple supplies! A hovercraft is a devi...Make a CD Hovercraft
Product Type: Hands-on Activities
Audience: Students
Grade Levels: K-4 5-8
Subjects: Engineering Design
Make your own hovercraft using simple supplies! A hovercraft is a device that moves by floating on a cushion of air. NASA uses hovercraft to test spacecraft and the ways they need to move. This is because the objects we put in space experience hardly any friction – and the same is true of hovercraft.
Make a CD Hovercraft=>https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/make-a-hovercraft/
Make a Planet Mask
Product Type: Hands-on Activities
Audience: Students
Grade Levels: K-4
Subjects: Earth Jupiter Mars Mercury Neptune Saturn Solar System and Planets Sun Uranus Venus
Our solar s...Make a Planet Mask
Product Type: Hands-on Activities
Audience: Students
Grade Levels: K-4
Subjects: Earth Jupiter Mars Mercury Neptune Saturn Solar System and Planets Sun Uranus Venus
Our solar system has eight very different and special planets. Which one is farthest from the Sun? Which one has the most moons? Find the answers to these questions, and make a cool wearable planet mask with this fun activity!
Make a Planet Mask=>https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/planet-masks/en/
2023 BIG Idea Challenge: Lunar Forge – Producing Metal Products on the Moon
Audience: Educators Students
Grade Levels: Higher Education
Subjects: Engineering Design Missions to Planets and Moons Te...2023 BIG Idea Challenge: Lunar Forge – Producing Metal Products on the Moon
Audience: Educators Students
Grade Levels: Higher Education
Subjects: Engineering Design Missions to Planets and Moons Technology
NASA’s 2023 Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge=>https://bigidea.nianet.org/ is an engineering design competition sponsored by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate and the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Project. Managed by the National Institute of Aerospace, the challenge is open to teams of five to 25 students from Space Grant-affiliated colleges/universities. Teams are challenged to submit proposals for technologies that will enable the production of lunar infrastructure from in-situ resource utilization-derived metals found on the Moon. Key products desired are storage vessels for liquids and gases, pipes, power cables, and supporting structures.
Teams are invited to submit proposals from $50,000 to $180,000 that focus on any part of the metal product production pipeline* from prospecting to testing (*exclusions apply).
Weather and Climate iQuest
Product Type: Lesson Plans/Activities
Audience: Educators
Grade Levels: 5-8
Subjects: Weather and Climate
Help students explore the wild and changing world of weather a...Weather and Climate iQuest
Product Type: Lesson Plans/Activities
Audience: Educators
Grade Levels: 5-8
Subjects: Weather and Climate
Help students explore the wild and changing world of weather and climate. Students follow the links to answer questions about oceanic and atmospheric flow patterns, global climate change, Earth's vital signs and weather.
Teacher and student pages are available.
Next Generation Science Standards: ESS2.C, ESS2.D
Weather and Climate iQuest=>https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/interactive/weather-climate-iquest
Ocean Ecosystem Dessert
Product Type: Hands-on Activities
Audience: Students
Grade Levels: K-4 5-8
Subjects: Animals and Plants Weather and Climate
Make an ocean you can eat for dessert as you le...Ocean Ecosystem Dessert
Product Type: Hands-on Activities
Audience: Students
Grade Levels: K-4 5-8
Subjects: Animals and Plants Weather and Climate
Make an ocean you can eat for dessert as you learn about the community of plants and animals that live in the sea.
Product Type: Lesson Plans/Activities, STEM Lessons Plus
Audience: Educators
Grade Levels: K-4, 5-8, 9-12
Subjects: Solar System and Planets, Space Science, Telescopes
Bring the exc... Product Type: Lesson Plans/Activities, STEM Lessons Plus
Audience: Educators
Grade Levels: K-4, 5-8, 9-12
Subjects: Solar System and Planets, Space Science, Telescopes
Bring the excitement of the James Webb Space Telescope into your classroom with this STEM toolkit. Find resources, activities, videos and more for your students to learn about NASA’s newest space observatory! Webb’s infrared sensitivity will be able to detect light emitted from the universe’s first galaxies formed over 13.5 billion years.
James Webb Space Telescope STEM Toolkit => https://www.nasa.gov/stem/nextgenstem/webb-toolkit.html