Get Kids Learning About Mars - NASA Activities

"NASA/JPL Edu" <education@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:06:29 -0400



Title: Mars Activities for Kids from NASA at Home


                              Explore Mars With NASA at Home

                              The first helicopter designed to fly on another planet was officially named today! Ingenuity was the name selected in the contest-winning essay by Vaneeza Rupani, a junior at Tuscaloosa County High School in Northport, Alabama. Ingenuity will travel to the Red Planet on the belly of NASA's next Mars rover, Perseverance, and will mark the agency's first attempt at powered flight on another planet.
                                            
                              Read the full story on the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory website. Then, get kids exploring Mars – and their own ingenuity and perseverance – with activities from JPL's Learning Space website. Easy to get started, the activities are designed by education specialists to get kids learning and exploring just like NASA scientists and engineers.

                              
                              Explore Mars Activities

                              
                                      Project: Make a Paper Mars Helicopter – Build a paper helicopter, then see if you can improve the design like NASA engineers did when making the first helicopter for Mars.
                                    
                                  
                                      Project: Code a Mars Helicopter Video Game – Create a video game that lets players explore the Red Planet with a helicopter like the one going to Mars with NASA's Perseverance rover!
                                    
                                  
                                      Project: Make a Cardboard Rover – Build a rubber-band-powered rover that can scramble across a room.
                                    
                                  
                                      Project: Make a Moon or Mars Rover Game – Create a Moon or Mars exploration game using Scratch, a visual programming language. Think like NASA space-mission planners to design your game!
                                    
                                  
                                      Project: RoverView 3-D Glasses – Make your own 3-D glasses that look like NASA's Curiosity Mars rover!
                                    
                                  
                                      Video Series: Mars in a Minute – Learn all about Mars and NASA's missions to the Red Planet in this quick and fun animated video series.
                                    
                                  
                                      Reading: All About Mars – Learn all about Mars and explore more articles and games for kids on the NASA Space Place website.
                                    
                                  
                                      Mars Lessons for Educators – Explore standards-aligned STEM lessons that get students learning about the Red Planet and NASA's missions to Mars.