Join one our our museum educators as she reads the children’s book The Moon Over Star by Dianna Hutts Aston, with illustrations by Jerry Pinkney!

Have you ever traveled far away from home? Did you send a postcard to your friends or family to share the experience with them? Let your imagination take you on a trip faaaaar from Earth, at the very boundaries of our solar system—what might THAT postcard look like?!

Open-ended all-ages activity, courtesy of NASA.

Weather: it’s more than just a conversation-starter.

What causes weather, how do we study it, and what is the weather like on other planets? Learn all about it in today’s lesson, geared toward middle-school learners! Part 2 of 2.

We live in a three-dimensional space. That means that solid objects around us have length, width, and depth. In geometry, we can talk about specific types of solid objects, one type being Platonic solids.

This is a geometry activity that is good for all ages—some younger learners might need an adult’s help constructing the solids and there is a link to a deeper explanation of Euler’s Formula for more advanced learners!

Computers work by adding binary numbers using circuits of logic gates. In this module, learn about some of the most common types of logic gates, and model them by building circuits out of dominoes.

This module is geared toward upper-middle and high school students.

Weather: it’s more than just a conversation-starter.

What causes weather, how do we study it, and what is the weather like on other planets? Learn all about it in today’s lesson, geared toward middle-school learners!

We can study the way regular polygons interact with each other, and one way they can do so is through tessellations. A tessellation, also called a tiling, is a way to cover a surface with a repeating pattern of flat shapes such that there are no overlaps or gaps. A good example of a tessellation is actual tile, like what you would find on a bathroom floor.

This is a geometry activity that is good for all ages!

What did we know about the Moon before Apollo 11 landed there? Learn about the surface of the Moon and then make your own Moon sand with this fun at home activity.

Turn April showers into an opportunity for at-home science! In this all-ages activity, learn how to track rainfall using a simple homemade rain gauge.

Adult supervision required—sharp objects utilized in one step.

Join one our our museum educators as she reads the children’s book “Going Around the Sun: Some Planetary Fun” by Marianne Berkes!

Try out this fun and yummy math activity using skittles! Learn the basics of fractions, decimals and percentages. Activity meant for kids grades 3-5, who already have a basic understanding of fractions (what a fraction is and addition of fractions). This video provides a visual for kids learning fractions.

Create your own world of mountains and valleys, and watch the effects of a rainstorm!

Appropriate for pre-k and up, with supervision (mess potential!)

Assemble and test your own space shuttle glider with this at-home project from NASA!

In this easy, hassle free, experiment, you will use pepper floating on water to demonstrate how soap affects the surface of water. This is a quick experiment and requires few materials, but it surprised me how reactive the pepper is to the soap on the surface of the water, you will want to try it out a few times

In this introduction to coding, learn how computers store information in numerical format and test your skills at reading & writing in binary!

Geared toward upper elementary through middle school learners.

Geometry is applied in many fields outside of mathematics, including physics, architecture, and art. One example of the meeting of art and geometry is a mandala. Mandalas are geometric designs that often rely of symmetry around a circle. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas are used as an aid in meditation. The beauty of mandalas lies in their symmetry, and the creation of mandalas is often associated with restoring inner peace.

Formulate the diameter of the moon using proportions.

This activity is geared toward middle- and high schoolers due to the mathematical component.

The Discovery Center is working hard to virtualize and share our exhibits with teachers and families while they are home remote teaching. Download a copy of our virtual exhibit: Shackleton Research Station and discover what it would be like if you lived on a lunar colony. When you are done, download the accompanying worksheets and test your knowledge!

Learn about orbits in our solar system by creating a simple, all-ages model.