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Featured Teaching Materials

NASA SciFiles™: The Case of the Great Space Explo...

09.16.08

Join the Tree House Detectives as they head to Space Camp and NASA to find out if they truly have the "right stuff."

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Hurricane Education

09.09.08

NASA has developed several educational tools including posters, classroom activities, visualizations and graphics classroom activities on hurricanes.

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Cool Suits Activity

An astronaut poses in a training version of a spacesuit

09.03.08

This lesson challenges students to find the relationship between energy reflection/absorption and color.

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Education Programs

NASA offers many educational programs for K-4 educators throughout the year. See what is available now.

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Current Opportunities

World Space Week →

Commemorate the launch of Sputnik 1 by celebrating World Space Week in your classroom, Oct. 4-10, 2008!
Earth Science Week 2008 →

Celebrate this year's theme of "No Child Left Inside" during the week of Oct. 12-18.
Free Teaching Tools Aligned to State Science Education Standards →

The National Institutes of Health has aligned its series of curriculum supplements to individual state education standards. Visit the link to request these free education supplements.

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Featured Sites

The Hubble Space Telescope Inspires Wonder

The Hubble educational resource site offers activities and resources for three primary themes: Hubble Careers, From Galileo to the Great Observatories, and the Hubble Walk: Spacesuits and Spacewalks.
NASA Art -- Fifty Years of Exploration

Get a sneak peak at artwork celebrating NASA's first fifty years.
Hurricanes

Find the latest storm images and data from NASA.

Have You Seen...

NASA Educator Resource Center Network

ERCs are here to help educators learn about and use NASA's educational resources.
About Hurricanes

Read more about specific hurricanes and how they are studied.
NASA Science →

Learn about microgravity research, Earth system science, physics and astronomy from NASA scientists.