NASA: Education: For Kids

Learn about NASA earth science projects related to air, thunderstorms, the earth's crust, tropical rainfall and water. Sponsored by NASA's Earth Science Enterprise.

Primarily for budding astronomers under the age of 14. A service of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center at NASA.

The best place for kids interested in space, science, rockets, astronauts and the solar system.

Games and activities to teach about space flight and what happens to the human body in space; a site sponsored by NASA's Life Sciences Data Archive

The Space Academy contains explanations of some of the knowledge we use to make the space program a success.A NASA site for kids.

Learn about comets with videos, coloring pages, puzzles, and stories about the NASA Stardust mission.

A distance learning initiative created by the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. It is designed to enhance and enrich the teaching of mathematics, science, geography, and technology in grades three though five. The NASA SCIence Files is a television and web-based project that provides students with the opportunity to apply the methods of science while solving real world problems.

This NASA web site contains a lot of new, exciting, fun and informative material on the soil. There is a Soil Gallery, where you can see the Soil of the Month and read some soil stories in Once Upon a Sandy Loam. You can even sing some soil songs in Rock 'N Soil.

Learn how meteorites are collected in the world's coldest continent, concentrating on specimens originating from the Moon and Mars.

Prepared at NASA Glenn by the Learning Technologies Project (LTP) to provide background information on basic aerodynamics and propulsion for secondary math and science teachers. Includes interactive animated illustrations of many concepts.

Connects students to information on flight simulators and wind tunnels, and enables them to communicate with NASA employees who are conducting aerodynamic research.

Archive of answers from this site which receives 30-50 questions a day about the earth, the moon, the cosmos, and other space topics; a NASA site.

Links to the best educational sites for students to learn about Astrobiology.

Provides information on propulsion for the K-12 audience.

In this annual competition, students are required to design a vehicle that addresses a series of engineering problems that are similar to problems faced by the original Moonbuggy team.

Interactive Multimedia Adventures for Kids in grades 2-5 introduces students to remote sensing and biodiversity from a constructivist approach.The Teacher's Guide contains classroom activities and lesson plans that provide a structure to integrate the interactive adventure into the classroom.