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Audience
Educators, Students
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12
Subject
Careers, Solar System and Planets, Solar System and Stars, Earth, Sun
Type
Hands-on Activities, Videos
NASA Role Model: Dr. Nicky Fox
NASA Center: Headquarters
Topic: Heliophysics
Original Air Date: Oct. 20, 2021
Join us as we chat with Dr. Nicky Fox, Director of Heliophysics as she talks about how asking the wrong questions led her to the right place.
STEM Short Activity: Scale Model of Sun and Earth
Objective: Students explores the relative size of Sun and Earth as well as the distance between them.
Duration: 30 minutes
Materials Needed: Diagram of the Sun, Diagram of the Earth, Measuring Tape
Difficulty: Easy
Next Generation Science Standards: MS-ESS1-3
Common Core State Standards: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RPA.3
“NASA STEM Stars” is a webchat series. Each chat introduces a science, technology, engineering or math career, addresses a STEM topic and highlights a NASA mission. The chat includes a STEM activity that students can do at home. After the interviews, experts answer students’ questions.