Get the latest news on ISS activities, launches, spacewalks, experiments and so much more.
Cost: FREE
Earth and Space Observation
NASA STEM on Station
Link directly to NASA education programs and activities supporting ISS outreach. Learning guides, resources and news.
Cost: FREE
Space Station Ambassadors
Join our nationwide network of volunteers who share their excitement about the International Space Station with their students, peers, and communities! The Space Station Ambassadors program is open to adults including all educators, leaders, and lifelong learners. Connect with other enthusiasts and enjoy access to great educational resources and special perks!
Space Station Ambassadors can participate in many ways:
- Conduct workshops or seminars for educators or the public
- Test and evaluate educational activities
- Develop new lesson plans and activities
- Advocate for ISS-based research and space education
With greater involvement, Ambassadors enjoy increasing rewards:
- Free posters, T-shirts, and educational resources
- Priority access to educational events and opportunities
- Complimentary registration to various STEM conferences
- Quarterly Ambassador meetings with special giveaways
Cost: FREE
Already an Ambassador? Log In to the Ambassadors Portal
Space Stn Explorers – STEM Guide
These six hands-on activities, using easily accessible materials, introduce core concepts about the ISS. A great entry point for students and educators.
- Humans in Space: Measuring distances
- Mission Patch Design: Crew Unity in Space
- Ready to Launch: Engineering Rockets
- Spacewalk Simulation
- Story Time from Space: Max Goes to ISS
- Design a Space Station
Cost: FREE
Science Time From Space
Astronauts demonstrate surprising science concepts that complement the content in Story Time From Space books.
Together, Science Time From Space and Story Time From Space offer a delightful combination of science, literacy, and entertainment through its library of free, family-friendly videos.
Science Time from Space present educational demonstrations that complement the science concepts covered in the books. Free curricular support materials are being designed to connect the science content with the Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core. Educators, families, libraries, science centers, after-school groups, and others can access all the resources online for free.
Cost: FREE
CanSat
Magnitude makes STEM education exciting for teachers and students with a satellite that fits in a soda can: the CanSat. Extend the in-class experience of Science and Mathematics with a turn-key instrumented CanSat, and finish your semester with a high powered rocket launch or high altitude balloon. This is a complete hands-on experience mapped to Common Core and Next Generation Science standards by UC Davis, School of Education. Flight ready hardware, lesson plans, and student labs are included.
The curriculum covers learning about instrument sensors such as accelerometers, barometric, humidity, temperature, magnetometer sensors, and GPS. Students will learn about mission planning, Data analysis, mission hypothesis, science communication and science writing.
Magnitude.io and the UC Davis School of Education have developed a science curriculum to accompany the CANSAT launch kit appropriate for students in grades 6-12. The CANSAT curriculum places students in the midst of a scientific exploration mission culminating in a rocket or balloon launch of a scientific payload and the analysis of the resulting data. Students participate in every step of a scientific exploration mission, including:
- Determining and communicating mission and scientific objectives
- Determining and communicating scientific hypotheses
- Evaluating and choosing scientific instrument payloads
- Flight testing aspects of the launch and scientific systems
- Anticipating data recovery and data analysis needs and designing required protocol
- Launch and recovery of the scientific payload
- Mission data analysis
- Communicating scientific results
Cost: $$$