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NASA eClips™ at Home



NASA eClips™ at Home fuels kids’ curiosity as they investigate science and the world around them through the lens of NASA. This program builds upon NASA eClips video segments to bring education and entertainment into the home and classroom. In each episode, interns work together to explore and demonstrate scientific concepts related to a specific topic. Segment topics developed for students in grades 4-7 and correlated with Virginia Standards of Learning, include simple machines, the solar system and the water cycle.

Mentored by National Institute of Aerospace’s (NIA) STEM educators, NASA university interns created, directed, and filmed the show from their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Final video production was performed by NIA’s Media Communications Group.

NASA eClips at Home airs on VPM Plus.

Extremophiles

Sarah Adewumi, former NASA eClips Intern and Aviation Sciences and Management graduate, helps us explore the world of extremophiles. Examine the criteria used to determine whether something is living, conduct your own science experiment to learn more about “what is alive,” and search for living things around you.

Learn what an extremophile is and explore extreme settings on Earth that push the limits for ordinary living things. Find out more about pH, just one of the factors that can make environments inhospitable to life. Make your own test strips and measure the pH of safe household substances.

Create your own imaginary organisms adapted to chosen extreme world. Vivid and engaging video, hands-on explorations using everyday items – this segment has it all!

Published on: January 20, 2021

Simple Machines

Join NASA interns Jacob, Sarah and Lenore, as they explore force, motion, energy, and simple and compound machines.

Learn how NASA uses simple and compound machines and how to find (or create!) examples within your own home. Developed for students in grades 4-7.

Published on: July 24, 2020

Solar System

NASA interns Lenore Miller, Sarah Adewumi, and Jacob Wologo, explore the Sun and the solar system.

Learn more about some of the objects within the solar system, ways to scale distances between these objects, and the power of the Sun. Create a solar oven, your own pocket solar system model, and a working paper plate sundial. Developed for students in grades 4-7.

Published on: August 28, 2020

Water Cycle

NASA interns, Sarah Adewumi, Lenore Miller and Jacob Wologo, explore water as it moves through Earth’s spheres in the water cycle.

Learn about the processes involved in the water cycle, types of clouds and special properties of water. Learn how to create a cloud cover estimator in this engineering design challenge and how to make an "automatic" plant watering system using cohesion and adhesion.

Test your scientific skills as you create a model of the water cycle and investigate evaporation. Developed for students in grades 4-7.

Published on: August 3, 2020