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We partnered with educators worldwide to create fun activities for use at home or in the classroom...wherever the classroom is! Come and have fun with us!
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THE SPACE POTATO
Activity Duration: 60 min Recommended Age: 15-16 Design a deep space exploration ship that is supported by plants. Learn about the importance of plants to deep space exploration. |
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DESTINATION: SPACE UNDER WATER
Activity Duration: 90+ min Recommended Age: K-College Design and build an underwater habitat with household items or in virtual reality. |
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TRAIN LIKE A PRO CYCLIST
Activity Duration: 1 month Recommended Age: 10-18 Are you bored just riding around without a purpose? Do you want to train like a pro cyclist? You're never too young to learn. Investigate what it takes to become an elite cyclist. |
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FLY ME TO THE MOON
Activity Duration: 30+ min Recommended Age: Middle School (6th-8th) You are going on a trip to the Moon! But you are limited in what you can take. What will you bring and why? Test your creativity and survival skills. Let's all fly to the Moon together! |
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SENSORIAL ART FOR SPACE
Activity Duration: 60 min Recommended Age: Middle School (6th-8th) An activity to create sensory-rich artwork which will act as a souvenir from Earth in your space missions. Astronauts often face sensory deprivation, and this will be a great way to help us thrive in space! |
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Music Credit: The Avengers
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CALLING ALL SUPERHEROES Ages 6-13!
Activity Duration: 30 min Recommended Age: 6-13 Everyone has a SUPERHERO inside of them waiting to be discovered. What would it take to transform yourself into a superhero? (Check out the video to left left Be Inspired!) |
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LIFE IN SPACE
Activity Duration: 90 min Recommended Age: 6th- 7th grade Astronauts work to explore and help us understand our amazing and immense solar system and universe. Let's learn together what happens to the human body when astronauts are in space. |
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SUSTAINABLE TERRARIUM
Activity Duration: 1-30 days Recommended Age: 10-18 Who would love to build their own mini garden inside? A terrarium is your solution to growing a garden if you don’t have much space available or your climate doesn’t provide you with an opportunity to grow certain plants or foods. |
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MAKE IT IN TO SPACE
Activity Duration: 30 min per activity Recommended Age: 6-11 yrs. Take a journey into space and learn more about the Sun, Moon, Mars and the Solar System. Helen Schell, artist and STEM/space Ambassador, has prepared creative activities which children and adults can carry out in all environments, using recycled materials where possible. |
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SPACE HAVEN: ADVENTURES IN OUTERSPACE
Activity Duration: 4 hours Recommended Age: 10-13 Create a fictional story describing how the human body functions to survive in space. Design a costume and superpowers that enhance the abilities of the human body. |
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NEEL SOCKSTRONG
Activity Duration: 1 hour Recommended Age: 4-11+ Create a sock puppet astronaut in training to be a friend with Neel Sockstrong (our resident puppet astronaut at SciArt Exchange). In this activity, you can create your own puppets and design stories about their space adventures with Neel! You will need to learn about the parts of an astronaut’s suit and why they are needed to protect a person in space. |
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SPACE EXPLORATION: MISSION TO MINE Activity Duration: 60-120 minutes Recommended Age: 10-13 Planets, moons, asteroids and other celestial bodies in our solar system aren’t just giant rocks or gaseous objects orbiting in space. They may have valuable resources that can help humans explore space. These resources could be materials needed directly on Earth or for deeper space travel (water, fuel, building materials, etc.). Create a mission to make a planetary resource station! In this activity you will design a poster to recruit the crew you will need to launch a "Mission to Mine". |
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COSMIC MUSIC Activity Duration: 60 minutes Recommended Age: 6-9 "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything" -- Plato. In this activity students will explore how sound and music are made. Then they will use their engineering and design talents to create their own instrument, music and artwork! |
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BREAKING NEWS Activity Duration: 60-120 minutes Recommended Age: 10-18 Journalists report news stories so everyone can get the latest information. In this activity you will become a journalist and scope out the latest space news. Film a video newscast or write a news article to report your findings! |