NASA eClips™ Videos
Our World: Pluto - Our First Dwarf Planet
Find out how scientists now classify planets. See how NASA's robotic spacecraft, New Horizons, will help us learn more about the dwarf planet Pluto and similar objects in the Kuiper Belt.
Our World: What Is a Solar System?
Learn just what makes up a solar system and find out how we classify the thousands of objects in our own solar system. Since the production of this video New Horizons has reached, and is providing information on, the Kuiper Belt.
Our World: Moons In Our Solar System
Did you know astronomers have identified more than 300 moons in our solar system? How big is Ganymede? How small is Deimos? Which moons might have what it takes to support life? Follow the NASA missions to learn about these unique bodies in space.
Real World: Planetary Volcanoes
Thanks to NASA's missions, we know more about volcanoes in our solar system. Studying volcanoes can teach us about the interior properties of the planets and moons. Learn how the slope equation is used to identify how a volcano was formed.
Real World: Small Bodies Orbiting the Sun
Learn more about comets and asteroids and the role these play in our Solar System, as well as NASA's Rosetta and NEOWISE missions.
Real World: Close Encounters with an Asteroid
NASA sends a spacecraft to land on an asteroid, grab a piece of that asteroid, and then send that sample back to Earth to study. Learn more about all that NASA can learn about the formation of the Solar System from the close encounter of OSIRIS-REx with near-Earth asteroid Bennu.
Real World: Scaling the Solar System
Paul Chodas, Manager for NASA's Near Earth Object Program, explains Astronomical Units (AUs) and how this unit of measure helps simplify an understanding of distances within the solar system. To further simplify thinking about these vast distances, distances within the solar system are explained scaled to the size of a football field.
Real World: Limits of the Solar System
What defines the limits of the solar system? Where does the Oort Cloud fit within this defined space? Paul Chodas, from NASA's Near Earth Object Program, answers these questions and fills us in on some of NASA's missions and explorations that have helped shape our understanding of the solar system.
Real World: Comet Quest
NASA is using the information to help us understand why different planets are so different. Find out what a comet's diameter tells astronomers about the life of the comet. Learn about Comet Ison and the new Rosetta Mission.
Ask SME Close-up with a NASA Subject Matter Expert Career Connection Videos
Astrobiologist - Dr. Danny Glavin
In this close-up video, Dr. Danny Glavin, Astrobiologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, shares his journey in becoming a 'rock star' for NASA and how communication is an essential part of his job.
NASA eClips Educator Guides
Our World: Dirt Educator Guide
Students use charts to organize their knowledge of Earth’s soil and moon dirt. Working in teams, students create several slides of Earth soil for analysis.
Mathematics
- NASA Educator Guide: Sizing up Pluto. K-5, 6-8
- SpaceMath@NASA Planet Fractions and Scales. K-5
- Rice Space Institute Planet Math. K-5
- SpaceMath@NASA Year of the Solar System Math Guide. K-5
- SpaceMath@NASA Cassini: Exploring the Moons of Saturn. K-5
- SpaceMath@NASA Exploring Jupiter with Juno. K-5
- SpaceMath@NASA Exploring Planetary Moons. K-5
- Our Solar System Lithograph Set
Background Information
- NASA JPL What Is a Dwarf Planet? K-5, 6-8
- NASA Asteroids, Meteors, Comets, & Meteorites. 6-8
- NASA Overview: Pluto Moons. K-5, 6-8
- NASA Pluto. K-5
- NASA Our Solar System Lithograph Set. K-5, 6-8, 9-12
- NASA Solar System Exploration. K-5, 6-8, 9-12
- NASA 10 Things About Our Solar System's Most Marvelous Moons. K-5, 6-8
- American Museum of Natural History Space Volcanoes in 360. 6-8
- Geology.com Active Volcanoes of Our Solar System. 6-8
NASA Spotlite Videos
Student-produced videos confronting misconceptions.
NASA Spotlite: Why is Mars Red?Student producers from St. Margaret's Episcopal School confront the misconception that Mars is red because of its temperature. Learn how to collect evidence refuting this misconception.
NASA Spotlite Interactive Lessons
Magnets and Metals (Teacher Packet)
Through watching a student-produced video, completing activities, explaining relevant concepts using new vocabulary using a Frayer Model, and applying new information, students will develop an understanding of the science content and how to correct the science misconception about plants.
NASA Spotlite Design Challenge
Design Challenge
Teams are challenged to produce a video to improve scientific literacy. The goal of the video is to engage other students in doing activities that can help change their misconceptions about a topic in science.
Join the NASA Spotlite Production Team!
Help others correct misconceptions about plants
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Partner and Other Resources
See what effect moisture has on a bean’s ability to grow into a plant.
Read this online article to learn the role trees play in studying weather over time.
climatekids.nasa.gov
Online Interactives
GLOBE Observer Trees
Use this app-based tool that will help you estimate tree height. Tracking how trees are changing over time can help NASA estimate the number of trees that make up an area.
- NASA Exploring Planetary Moons. K-5, 6-8
- NASA Eyes on the Solar System. K-5
- NASA In Depth: Pluto. K-5, 6-8
- NASA NASA Eyes -- Solar System Exploration. K-5
- NASA JPL Lava Layering: Making and Mapping a Volcano. 6-8
- NASA JPL Make a Volcano. 6-8
- NASA Space Place Space Volcano Explorer. 6-8
- PBS Learning Media Volcanoes. 6-8
- NASA Solar System Exploration Interactives. K-5
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center The Scale of Things. K-5, 6-8
- NASA Space Place Solar Sytem. K-5, 6-8
- NISE Network Exploring the Solar System: Pocket Solar System. K-5
- NASA Astromaterials 3D. K-5, 6-8, 9-12
- NASA Exploring Meteorite Mysteries. 6-8
- NASA More to Explore: Asteroids, Comets and Meteorites. K-5, 6-8
- NASA GSFC Asteroids, Meteoroids and Comets. 6-8
- NASA SpacePlace Make Asteroids You Can Eat!. 6-8
- NASAatHome Asteroid Activity. 6-8
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