The SCaN Fun Pad provides various activities for all ages! Download and print the fun pad at the links below to learn more about Space Communications and Navigation. 

Interested in having a NASA SCaN expert speak to your class or group? The SCaN program is accepting requests for visits (both virtual and in-person) during the coming calendar year. Request a virtual visit.

Play your way to learning about space communications and navigation!

Our SCaN student activities en Espanol.

You can’t see it. . .you can’t touch it. . .you can’t live without it. Enhance your lesson plan with these downloadable activity sheets.

Practice your engineering skills by decorating and assembling your own decoding device, then use it as a wheel cipher to help NASA decode three secret messages.

Create and share your own Artemis themed comic.

Learn about how our Deep Space Network supports planetary and deep space science.

Writing and coloring activities, along with a scavenger hunt, to help learn more about space communications.

This activity explores light reflection and refraction through an engineering design challenge.

Students review their knowledge of unit conversion by occupying the role of a NASA resource analyst.

Students strengthen their understanding of lasers through a series of challenges.

Can you solve our quantum code?

Learn all about Space Communications and Navigation from A to Z!

Curious about quantum? Learn the basics of quantum physics and how NASA plans to use quantum to communicate in space through our Quantum 101 comic.

In the Talking with Light Fun Fact sheet, you can learn more about laser communications, how they work, and what NASA missions will be using lasers to communicate with Earth!

Add some fun facts to your lunch box!

Recreate one of the most important experiments in the history of physics and analyze the wave-particle duality of light with this easy classroom demonstration designed for high school level physics students.

Bring space communications and navigation to your classroom!

NASA navigates throughout the solar system and beyond, revealing the mysteries of the universe. In these workbooks, you’ll use basic mathematics concepts to explore space navigation. 

Create an "antenna” or “receiver” out of re-used materials. After construction is complete, the students test their design by throwing “data” (in this case, ping pong balls) across the room and comparing the message to test the success of their receivers.

Astronauts, mission controllers, and scientists rely on SCaN to transmit message from Earth to space and back in order to communicate. Download this activity to decode the secret message!

Choice Boards give students the opportunity to decide how they would like to learn about a particular topic based off of their preferred learning style. Each SCaN Choice Board worksheet contains nine different activities centered on math, science, reading and drawing. Download the worksheets below to learn more about space communications and navigation technology, from engineering to satellites!