Links for educators

NASA's website offers numerous classroom projects and tools to help teachers engage their students in space exploration. Here are some of our favorites:

3...2...1...Liftoff
The construction of the International Space Station (ISS) is one of humankind's most exciting and challenging endeavors. Numerous rocket launches are required to build this orbiting science laboratory. The purpose of this curriculum supplement is to introduce students in the Early Childhood classroom to the International Space Station and the role rockets play in its construction. The guide uses these topics as the basis for interdisciplinary activities for the early learner.

21st century explorer
NASA's 21st Century Explorer is a 3rd-5th grade standards-based program that uses the Web, animation, and video to introduce science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and NASA space exploration concepts.

Food for spaceflight activity
Grades: 3-5
This lesson will help your students answer the question:
What foods are best suited for spaceflight and what makes foods suitable for spaceflight?

Links about the STS-126 mission

STS-126 image gallery
View photos of the crew and follow the action from space as the crew transmits photos from the shuttle and the space station.

Interactive timeline
Follow the Space Shuttle Endeavour mission day by day.