NASA/JPL K-12 Resources
NASA Kids
NASA KIDS is a part of the Science @ NASA family of web sites.
Thursday's Classroom
The aim of Thursday's Classroom is to provide a lasting connection between NASA's latest research and the classroom environment. We would appreciate your feedback about how we might make this a more useful resource. We also hope you'll become a regular weekly customer by subscribing to our Express News email service! If you're looking for an old episode or a schedule of upcoming lessons, please visit our archive.
Space Science News
SpaceScience.com features daily news about NASA research, live sky events, space weather, and opportunities for our readers to participate in real NASA science. See also ThursdaysClassroom.com and SpaceWeather.com for related information.
JPL Educator Resource Center (ERC)
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Educator Resource Center offers a variety of teaching materials to educators. Booklets, lithograph pictures, posters, videotapes and curriculum materials that have been produced by NASA/JPL can be obtained by mailing your request on school letterhead. Located in Pomona, California
NASA SpaceLink
NASA SpaceLink is NASA's electronic Gateway and Library for Educators, established in 1988. SpaceLink has a searchable library of educational resources and information, programs, services, and products.
JPL Education Gateway
JPL's Education Gateway is a one-stop for education and outreach programs, including K-12 and higher education, students, teachers, museums and informal education programs, and project outreach websites.
NASA's Classroom of the Future
The Classroom of the FutureTM (COTF) program is helping to bridge the gap between America's classrooms and the expertise of NASA scientists, who have advanced the frontiers of knowledge in virtually every field of science over the last forty years. The COTF program is administered by the Erma Ora Byrd Center for Educational TechnologiesTM at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, West Virginia.
The COTF serves as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) premier research and development program for educational technologies. In this capacity the COTF develops and conducts research on technology-based learning materials that challenge students to solve problems by using datasets and other information resources provided by the five strategic enterprises of NASA: Aero-Space Technology, Human Exploration and Development of Space, Earth Science Enterprise, Space Science, and Biological and Physical Research.
NASA's Learning Technologies Project (LTP)
The goal of NASA's Learning Technologies Project (LTP) is to promote the growth of a national information infrastructure using the vast amount of information the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has acquired and continues to acquire. Access to this knowledge allows the public, academia and industry to contribute to rapid and significant advances in science, engineering, and technology.
LTP is part of a larger government initiative, the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) program, whose mission is to accelerate the development, application, and transfer of high-performance technologies to the US engineering and science communities. These programs and all of the LTP projects increase public access to scientific databases and pilot programs for using science data. This access assists educators and others in creating new curriculum products and tools for enhancing K-12 and K-14 education.
Space Sciences Education Resource Directory
The Space Science Resource Directory is a convenient way to find NASA space science products for use in classrooms, science museums, planetariums, and other settings. This site serves NASA's Office of Space Science (OSS) Education and Public Outreach Support System. There are several ways to search this directory: Keyword Search, Custom Search, and Topic Search.
Imagine the Universe
Explore a universe of black holes, dark matter, and quasars... A universe full of extremely high energies, high densities, high pressures, and extremely intense magnetic fields which allow us to test our understanding of the laws of physics. From NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics.
StarChild
Welcome to StarChild -- A Learning Center for Young Astronomers, below age 14. From NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics.
Air, Natural Hazards, Land, and Ocean
"For Kids Only: Earth Science Enterprise" helps students learn about aerosols, ozone, air pressure, tropical rainfall & hurricanes, plate tectonics, earth science careers, & more.
The NASA "Why?" Files
Produced by Langley Research Center's Office of Education, the NASA "Why?" Files is a series of instructional programs designed to enhance the teaching of science, math, and technology concepts in grades 3-5. The series introduces students to scientific inquiry, scientific method, and problem-based learning through various problems that challenge our six tree house detectives.
Each program in the series has a 60 minute video, includes a resource-rich teacher guide, and is complemented by the NASA "Why?" Files web site. to support the national mathematics, science, and technology standards. The NASA "Why?" Files is FREE to educators and the programs in the series are in the public domain.
