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Collection of web-based activities designed for classroom use, but made available for everyone to enjoy.
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An interactive adventure for young astronomers guiding Arty and his alien friend Greg through our solar system.
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If you build it carefully, this Newtonian Physics Machine device demonstrates one of the basic laws of nature.
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Students at Rice University explain how they re-created the telescope that Galileo used to make the first ever magnified views of the stars and planets... and all for less than 30 dollars.
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Spacecraft Cassini is on its way to Saturn. Download the parts and instructions to build a paper model of the Cassini space probe. Find Saturn in the sky and discover more about this exciting adventure in space.
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Play the game and learn how satellites are launched, how they get their power, and how they help you watch your favorite television show.
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This collection of children's online astronomy activities, is a product of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Designed for grades 2 to 6, it contains hundreds of fun explorations into astronomy as a classroom tool for learning how to theorize, experiment, and analyze data.
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Challenges you to design a spacecraft to protect the International Space Station.
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An official NASA site with games and activities for kids interested in interplanetary travel - especially to Mars.
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Qwhiz is a real-time, multi-player web game for kids and teachers. Read some material on the Internet, then answer questions about it.
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Has games, stories and activities about space and aeronautics.
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Discover the relative size of everything in the universe. Beginning with a 1 metre square, each successive page jumps back 10 times until you are a billion light years away. Lots of good activities and information. Based on the Eames film of the same name.
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Your school can help to build a satellite which will be launched from the Space Shuttle. You can track the Starshine satellites from your back yard.
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See the space station, the space shuttle and many other satellites from your back yard.
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Fun and informative site for kids of all ages. Games, resources, galleries, and latest developments in exploration of sea and sky. Lots of great graphics.
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Primarily for budding astronomers under the age of 14. A service of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center at NASA.
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Interactive space station design game with facts on requirements such as food, air and power. Includes information on the solar system and a description of an expedition to the North Magnetic Pole.
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Discover the incredible size and history of the universe through interactive gaming. Learn about important people who taught us about space, and tour some distant galaxies.
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JavaScript calculator of sizes and distances of solar system bodies for making a scale model.
