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Genesis Kids
NASA’s Genesis mission learning page introduces children to the Sun and solar system through interactive games and activities, including instrument matching, Mars mazes, and word searches.
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Mars Global Surveyor for Kids: Mars Activities
NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor for Kids page offers instrument-matching games, Mars mazes, and a Mars-themed word search, plus links to additional Mars learning activities.
SciShow Space
SciShow’s dedicated space channel explains planets, stars, missions, astronomy discoveries, and the science of the universe.
NASA eClips
NASA videos and learning resources that connect space science with classroom and family STEM learning.
Hubble's Cosmic Adventure
A NASA Hubble game lets children choose a journey through the universe, answer questions, and follow their choices to destinations from nearby planets to distant galaxies.
NASA
Official NASA videos about space exploration, science, missions, Earth, astronomy, astronauts, and the future of discovery.
NASA For Students Grades K–4
NASA’s grade-banded collection for younger learners combines coloring pages, space games, storybooks, videos, crafts, launch challenges, and printable activities about NASA missions and science.
NASA JPL Education Overview
An official overview of NASA JPL’s education mission, audiences, K-12 content, STEM resources, and family-facing space learning.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Official NASA JPL videos about robotic exploration, Mars rovers, planetary missions, space technology, and skywatching.
NASA Space Place Activities
NASA Space Place Activities offers printable and interactive space-science activities for children, including science-fair projects, mazes, planet games, rockets, sound, maps, and Earth science.
10+ Things to Do with NASA at Home
NASA Science’s family article curates at-home rockets, moon-phase activities, videos, space exploration, citizen science, podcasts, ebooks, and hands-on STEM projects.
Challenger Center STEM at Home
A NASA and Challenger Center collection of adaptable science, technology, engineering, and math lessons for home learning, spanning Earth science, chemistry, forces, Mars, and the solar system.
NASA JPL K-12 Educator Resources
A searchable NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory library of K-12 lessons, projects, videos, collections, and teachable moments.
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