Lesson Plan
Space Awareness

Make a Star Lantern

For Students 1st - 4th
Go star-gazing with young learners! They study the history, origins, and patterns of constellations in an activity that explores the starry night sky.
Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

Planetary Mysteries

For Students 6th - 12th
A website all about planetary mysteries—it's a one-stop-shop for all things, stars, planets, and space travel. Scholars read an astronomy overview to discover the page's big ideas, then choose from the plethora of resources, including...
Lesson Plan
Starry Night Education

Comets and Meteors

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Comets are also known as dirty snowballs or icy mud balls. With your super scientists, create a model comet nucleus to discover how they are made and take part in a scientific discussion to learn how it behaves.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Landscape

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars create a landscape or cityscape.  In this landscape lesson, students discover the definition of a landscape and describe various examples.  Young scholars choose three images and write "postcards" from each...
Website
Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: Alma Thomas

For Students 9th - 10th
A description and interpretation of a painting called Starry Night with Astronauts by American artist Alma Thomas, the last in her Space Series. The series was an artistic response to the Apollo space program missions.