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"Ice in Motion" Greenland posters

Ice in Motion, a series of posters depicting NASA’s work in Greenland, is now freely available for download. The posters, which were translated into Danish and Greenlandic with the help of high school students, are currently on display at several airports and high schools in Greenland. The posters were designed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, in collaboration with the United States Embassy in Copenhagen, the government of Greenland and the Joint Committee, a forum involving the Greenlandic, Danish and U.S. governments.

A Universal Puzzler

Use your knowledge of space terminology to solve this puzzle.

Afterschool Universe

Afterschool Universe is an out-of-school-time astronomy program for middle school students. It explores astronomy concepts through engaging hands-on activities and takes participants on a journey through the universe.

Afterschool Universe YouTube Channel

These additional resources on YouTube help informal educators to run the activities within the Afterschool Universe program.

Another Way to Solve a Chilling Problem

This lab illustrates creative methods for cooling by presenting a technique for creating supercooled water. This may be done as a demonstration, but can be easily integrated into a chemistry or physics class as a lab exercise.

Ask an Astrophysicist

A service in which scientists within the Astrophysics Science Division answer questions on a variety of topics. The site includes an extensive collection of previously asked questions.

Ask Dr. SOHO

Ask Dr. SOHO will respond to questions about the sun. Grades K-adult .

Astronomy Picture of the Day

This site presents a different image of our fascinating universe every day, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

Beautiful Earth Website

Beautiful Earth is a unique education experience for people of all ages that combines live music, a multi-media presentation of NASA visualizations and timelapses, NASA scientist and Native American perspectives of the Earth, and hands-on workshops at 5 partner museums across the U.S.

Big Explosions and Strong Gravity

Big Explosions and Strong Gravity is an event curriculum where Girl Scouts meet real scientists and join them for a day of hands-on exploration into supernovae and black holes.

Build an LRO

Create your own models of lunar orbiters out of edible or nonedible materials.

Building Intuition for In-water Optics and Ocean Color Remote Sensing: Spectrophotometer Activity with littleBits™

This activity demonstrates optical properties of water: that different constituents in water affect the transmission, absorption, and scattering of different colors in the visible light spectrum.

Camp Landsat

Join us for nine weeks of summer camp fun! This virtual camp explores a new theme each week about how Landsat satellites help manage, protect, and preserve some of your favorite places on Earth. Your virtual camp counselors have curated an exciting collection of videos, interactives, and downloadable activities you can do at home or with friends of all ages.

Changes in Climate and Wildfires Unit

Students will explore how Arctic Amplification and teleconnections such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Arctic Oscillation (AO) can lead to environmental conditions that are conducive to the start and spread of wildfires. Wildfires can become more widespread when the environmental conditions are dry and warm, and the students will be able to explain why the conditions develop based on changes to climate patterns.

Chesapeake Bay Flyover and Watershed Region

Chesapeake Bay Flyover and Watershed Region animation with city and river labels

Climate Change Inquiry Lab

Students work in groups to investigate one of the following factors driving climate change: greenhouse gases, sea level rise and melting sea ice. The investigation involves conducting an experiment, connecting to real-world data and presenting a poster summary of their findings.

ClimateBits: El Niño

This brief (1:58) video provides an explanation of El Niño and its impact on the marine food web. Satellite images of a large El Niño in 2015 show the impact on both water temperature and phytoplankton blooms.

ClimateBits: Fast Carbon, Slow Carbon

Designed for Science on a Sphere, this video is narrated by NASA scientist Peter Griffith who explains fast and slow carbon cycling on Earth. A banana is an example of fast, young carbon. A chunk of coal is an example of old, slow carbon.

ClimateBits: Unhealthy Air

This video explains how air pollution negatively affects the health of people around the world.

ClimateBits: UV Index

This brief (1:53) video describes the UV (Ultraviolet) index and presents a visual range of its monthly strength at Earth's surface. The factors that influence that range- the sun's angle, ozone thickness, clouds, air pollution, surface reflection, and land elevation- are presented.