Curriculum Supplements
New robotics activities are available. Download the
activity summaries or the
full activity set in PDF format.
The Mars Curriculum Modules are designed to help bring the topic of Mars into your 4th through 12th grade classrooms.
NASA Resources and Educational Programs
- NASA Robotics Education Project Robots are a
great way to inspire students to learn about math, science, and technology.
Enjoy robots in the classroom or find out how students can participate in
robotics competitions and other events.
- Destination Mars
Learn to study Mars like a scientist.
- Teachspacescience.stsci.edu
This Directory is a convenient way to find NASA space science products for use in classrooms, science museums, planetariums and other settings.
- NASA SpaceLink Mars Educational Materials
This is the Mars section of NASA's primary site for educators and their students. Bookmark http://spacelink.nasa.gov as your source of NASA educational materials.
- NASA CORE (Central Operation of Resources for Educators)
This site offers Mars-related audio-visual materials. See http://core.nasa.gov for other resources.
Educational Sites Created by Mars Missions and Instruments
Cornell University is responsible for the Athena scientific instrument package on the twin rovers being
launched in 2003. Their site offers educational and fun ways to explore Mars.
What is Mars' weather today?
The Mars Global Surveyor is currently orbiting Mars. The Global Surveyor Radio Science Team Education Outreach Program at Stanford University gives a daily Martian Weather Report and has a selection of lessons and activities for grades K-12.
What's happening on the surface?
The Mars Orbiter Camera on Mars Global Surveyor is looking at craters, flood channels, clouds and dust devils. Malin Space Science Systems has assembled some interesting educational materials.
How deep are Mars' valleys and how high are its mountains?
The Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter on Mars Global Surveyor from NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center is mapping the ups and downs of Mars' surface.
What can we learn from Mars' magnetic field?
The Magnetometer/Electron Reflectometer team on Mars Global Surveyor at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center can tell you.
What's Mars made of?
The Thermal Emission Spectrometer on Mars Global Surveyor is finding out! Visit their educational website at Arizona State University.
What Lies Beneath?
Probing Below the Surface of Mars, for grades 5 through 8, allows students to record and graph temperature data. They will also see how the properties of a material affect the transfer of heat. Students will use a model of an ice-rich and ice-free near-surface on Mars to examine how the ice content of the Martian soil will affect the rate at which a warm probe will cool.
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