Activities: Grades 5-8 | Ages 10 to 13

Activities for Grades 5 thru 8 | Ages 10 to 13

Individual Activities Group Activities Outdoor Activities

  1. Build your own spacecraft!
  2. Build | Down to the Core . DESIGN SQUAD GLOBAL
  3. Make Your Own Asteroid
  4. Student Project: How Warming Water Causes Sea Level Rise
  5. Student Project: Make a Cloud in a Bottle
  6. Student Project: Make a Hovercraft | NASA/JPL Edu
  7. Student Project: Make a Jupiter Orbiter
  8. Student Project: When Do Lunar Eclipses Happen?
  9. Condiment Diver: Fluids & Mechanics Science Activity
  10. Make a Balloon-powered Nanorover!

  1. Build a Moon Habitat!
  2. Jiggly Jupiter
  3. Searching for Life
  4. Magnetic Atmosphere Model: Physics & Earth Science Science Activity
  5. Blue Sky: Waves & Light Science Activity
  6. Dunking the Planets
  7. Student Project: Make a Planetary Exploration Balloon
  8. How Does the Atmosphere Change Over Time?
  9. Falling for Gravity: Physics & Mathematics Science Activity
  10. Explore - Space Exploration - Build a Moon Base!

  1. Make Handprint Art Using Ultraviolet Light!
  2. Student Project: Make an Astronaut Lander
  3. Equatorial Sundial
  4. BALLOON IMPACTS
  5. Student Project: Make a Planetary Exploration Balloon
  6. Student Project: How to Make a Pinhole Camera
  7. Bottle Blast Off: Physics & Engineering Science Activity
  8. Educator Guide: Roving on the Moon
  9. Educator Guide: Rocket Activity: Heavy Lifting
  10. Educator Guide: Solar Oven


"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." - Marie Curie - two-time Nobel Prize winning scientist