NASA from Space to Everyday Life

NASA 360 is a series of videos about NASA's technological and scientific work and how it has contributed to elements of our daily lives...

Christmas Dinner in Space - And How Astronauts Eat in Space

This afternoon I stumbled upon an old Smithsonian article about Christmas dinner and food in general on the International Space Station . Th...

Send a Message to Mars In the Form Of a Haiku

NASA's MAVEN mission will launch later this year. Earlier this year NASA hosted a student art contest through which students could have ...

How Far Is It To Mars? An Infographic

How Far Is It To Mars? is a neat infographic that provides a pixel scale to show you how far it is from Earth to the Moon and the distance ...

5 Resources to Help Students Understand the Size of the Universe

Sometimes when I take my dogs outside on a cold clear night in Maine I look up at the sky and I try to wrap my head around the size of the u...

The Story of Exploration in Four Minutes

Through one of Kevin Hodgson's recent posts I learned about Dara O Briain's Science Club series on the BBC . The series currently ...

A Guided Tour Inside the International Space Station

In the 25 minute video below former commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams takes viewers on an in-depth tour of the ...

NASA Kids' Club - Games and More for K-4

NASA Kids' Club is a new offering from NASA that features games, interactive activities, and images for students to explore, play, and ...

Falling Faster Than the Speed of Sound

Earlier today Felix Baumgartner survived his sky dive from more than 24 miles above the Earth's surface. In doing so he became the first...

Planet Quest - An Interactive Timeline of Space Exploration

NASA has an excellent interactive timeline tracing the history of astronomy and space exploration from the Greek philosophers through tod...

What an Astronaut's Camera Sees

What an Astronaut's Camera Sees is an impressive narrated video of images of Earth as captured from space. The video is narrated by Dr....

Stellarium - A Planetarium on Your Desktop

Last week Tekzilla Daily had a segment about Stellarium . I was certain that I had written about Stellarium in the past, but when I checked...

Remembering the Challenger 25 Years Later

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Challenger explosion CNN Student News has included a segment about how Christa McAuliffe is still inspi...

Free DVD - Journey to the Stars

NASA in conjunction with the American Museum of Natural History is giving away copies of Journey to the Stars . Journey to the Stars is nar...

Send Your Face (Or Students' Faces) Into Space

A couple of years ago NASA offered the opportunity for students to send their names to the moon on a robotic lunar explorer. Now NASA is of...

Video - Space Shuttle from Hangar to Launch

The Air & Space Magazine website has a neat time-lapse video documenting the process of preparing NASA's Discovery space shuttle f...

NASA Brain Bites - Video Answers to Your Curiosities

NASA produces lots of great content for students. A teacher could spend many hours on the site and still not uncover all of the valuable con...

Celestia - Explore Space on Your Computer

Celestia is a free space exploration simulation program. Celestia is a free download that works on Mac, PC, and Linux systems. The advantag...