Make Your Own Satellite
(Grades K-5)
Materials list:
Everyday recyclable items such as tin foil,
styrofoam cups or bowls, plastic bottles, platic
fruit or vegetable containers, pie tins, orange
juice cans, milk cartons, empty paper towel
or toilet paper rolls, straws, bottle caps,
shoe boxes, egg cartons, ribbon and yarn.
You will also need everyday household tools
such as scissors, tape, glue, magic markers
and paper clips.
The Activity:
Look
at photos of some real satellites. Using
the materials listed above, use your imaginiation
to make your own satellite. Here
are some examples.
Voyage
of Discovery
(Grades K-5)
Build and explore a 1:10 billion scale model
of our solar sytem.
Download the PDF file.
This imaginative activity was designed by
the Challenger
Center. It's free to download and to use
for educational purposes. The file is in PDF
format, so you'll need the Adobe Acrobat Reader
to view it.
If you don't have a PDF Reader, you can
download a free copy from Adobe now. 
Space
Tools
(Grades 5-12)
This activity is an excerpt from NASA's
"Suited for Spacewalking Teacher's Guide".
Download the entire Guide. The file is in
PDF format, so you'll need the Adobe Acrobat
Reader to view it.
Materials list:
- thick insulated ski gloves or heavy rubber
work gloves
- small machine screws and nuts
- Tinker Toys™ or Legos™
- paper and pencil
The Activity:
Practice using tools while wearing heavy gloves
that represent the gloves worn by astronauts on
spacewalks.
While wearing the gloves, try to assemble
a structure out of construction toys, twist
a nut onto a machine screw, write a message
with the pencil on paper. Try to design tools
that could help you do work in space if you
were repairing a satellite.
If
I Were A Satellite...
(Grades K-3)
Materials List:
- Large sheets of drawing paper
- Crayons and/or markers
- Your imagination
The Activity: If you were a satellite,
what would you look like? What planet would
you like to orbit? Draw a picture of yourself
as a satellite. Add some things you might see
while in orbit.
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