For Students Grades 5-8 - NASA

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NASA Knows: How Does the Sun Behave?

A picture of the lunar surface with the NASA insignia and the text Spinoff 2025

NASA Spinoff 2025

Read About NASA Technology Spinoffs

After completing its journey from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans aboard the Pegasus barge, teams with Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) transport the agency’s powerful SLS (Space Launch System) core stage to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. Once inside, SLS will be prepared for integration atop the mobile launcher ahead of the Artemis II launch.

What Is the Artemis Program?

An artist's concept of a small satellite orbiting Earth. The United States and Mexico are visible below.

What Is a Satellite?

What Is the International Space Station?

A collage of small thumbnails of pages from Issue 9 lined up together and at a slanted angle.

Astrobiology: The Story of our Search for Life in the Universe

Read the History Series

NASA astronauts Robert L. Behnken, left, Douglas G. Hurley (holding the Legacy Flag), and Christopher J. Cassidy during a press conference

Flag Day 2024

Former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson is seen after President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

Who Was Katherine Johnson?

Spiral galaxy: 2 almost-straight arms coming from the left and right of the golden core that meet a starry, bluish ring around the edge. A faint light halo surrounds the galaxy. One bright star, a few small stars and galaxies all on a black background.

What Is a Black Hole?

NASA Kids' Club Nebula Character standing next to a rocket

Why Do We Explore?

Go to Animated Storybook

Commander Moonikin Campos Graphic

The Adventures of Commander Moonikin and Friends

Join Our Heroes on their Adventure

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Story Time with Astronauts

Listen to Stories

Comic book astronaut characters in Microgravity

The Astro-Not-Yets Explore Microgravity

Read the Story About Microgravity

A drawing of a group of students and an educator with the word sound in the background

The Astro-Not-Yets Explore Sound

Read the Story About Sound

Cover of The Astro-Not-Yets Explore Energy storybook

The Astro-Not-Yets Explore Energy

Read the Story About Energy

Aeronautics Leveled Readers

Read About the History of Aviation

Go to the Stories Webpage

Build It!

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Tornado in a bottle

Tornado in a Bottle

Hand holds airplane made from a straw and paper

Make a Straw Plane

Animated gif showing the Orion spacecraft near the Moon during the Artemis 1 uncrewed flight test in 2022.

Build an Orion Desktop Model

Download and Print Paper Model

A student built spectrograph

Build Your Own Spectrograph

Three rocky asteroids

Make Asteroids You Can Eat!

Lunar lander made out of a red solo cup and straws

Build a Lander, Make Moon Phase Cookies, and More!

Make a Scale Solar System

Play It!

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Scene from the Searching for Spingoffs NASA Kids' Club game featuring a garage with different items

Use Clues to Find NASA Spinoffs

Play the NASA Spinoffs Game

Addition Blast Off game

Launch the Rocket

Play Addition Blastoff Game

Airplane High Low game

What Number am I Thinking of?

Play Airplane High Low Game

Rocket Builder

Build a Fleet of Rockets

Play Rocket Builder Game

Star Fall game

Clear All the Stars to Win

Play Star Fall Game

Jumbled Jets game

Jumbled Jets

Play Jumbled Jets Game

Explore Mars Game

Drive a Rover on Mars

Play Drive a Rover on Mars Game

Color It!

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Outline of an astronaut

Download the Astronaut Coloring Sheet

Start Coloring!

Color Nature with Nebula

Color Nature with Nebula

Black and white drawing of a rover

Space Place Coloring Pages

Illustration of 4 children dressed in space outfits

Commercial Crew Activity and Coloring Booklet

Black and white drawing of Artemis

Download the Artemis Coloring Page

A black and white starry background with a rainbow-colored circle and the words “Color the Universe”

NASA Coloring Books

Black and white drawing of two astronauts on the Moon

Spacewalk Coloring Sheet

Explore It!

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LunaSustain Online Experience

Stereo movie of Dinkinesh from NASA’s Lucy mission.

Help Scientists Search for Asteroids Around Dead Stars

Artist illustration of the X-59 over land.

Take a Virtual Flight with NASA

Code a Mars Rover Driving Game

Climate Change for Kids

Find Your Exoplanet Name

Illustration of a floating city in space

Trace Space Back to You

Child explaining their science fair poster to a teacher

How To Do a Science Fair Project

Be a Stargazer!

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Animation of the Moon Phase Calendar

Make a Moon Phases Calendar and Calculator

Illustration of a lion, bull, and ram in the sky and the words "Tonight's Sky Constellations"

What's Up Monthly Skywatching Guide

Paper fortune teller game

Make a Star Finder

A full Moon seen through blades of grass

Look at the Moon! Journal What You See

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Climate Kids

Play fun games, do hands-on activities, watch videos, and read stories about our changing planet!