Impact Craters
To determine the factors affecting the appearance of impact craters and ejecta.

Crazy Craters
 In this activity, your students experiment to find out more about what causes the various features of impact craters, including the rim of mountains around the edge, and the streaks or rays that fan out from large craters. What they learn in this activity about our own Moon, Luna, they can later compare and contrast to what they find out about the moons of Jupiter and our own planet Earth.

Reaping Rocks
To make predictions about the origin of lunar rocks by first collecting, describing, and classifying neighborhood rocks.

Solar System Collisions
Send an asteroid or comet hurling into your favorite planet.

Exploring Planets:
More than 25 hands-on science activities are provided in classroom-ready pages for both teachers and students for exploring Earth, the planets, geology, and space sciences.

Discoveryschools.com

Teachnology
Space and Astronomy Lesson Plans

The Space Place
A great site from NASA to explore with your students. Don't miss the Goodies for Teachers area for printables and lesson worksheets.

NASA Spacelink
Use this website to start your search of the NASA collection of educational materials, such as classroom lessons, online activities, and multimedia resources.

NASA Explores
Express Lessons and Online Resources

Lesson Plan Central
An educator's guide to lesson plans, worksheets, web links, and more.

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