Digital Programs Delivered to Your Classroom (Grades K - 10)
e-Missions (Grades 3 - 10)
Digital e-Mission Details
Group Size: Up to 32 students
Price: GOES-R Lightning Mappers - $300
Orion Moonbound - $325
Moon, Mars and Beyond, Lunar Outpost and Operation Montserrat - $500
Includes teacher training, classroom materials and standards-based lesson plans
*contact our Registrar to inquire about grant or scholarship funding assistance
For the 2024-2025 school year, choose from:
- GOES-R Lightning Mappers™ (grade 3)
- Moon, Mars and Beyond™ (grade 4)
- Lunar Outpost™ (grade 5)
- Operation Montserrat™ (grades 6 - 8)
- Orion: Moonbound™ (grade 9 - 10)
GOES-R Lightning Mappers™ | Recommended: Grade 3
The GOES-R series of satellites is tracking weather on Earth like never before. When a hurricane disrupts the connection from Earth to an orbiting GOES-R weather tracker, student teams are challenged with analyzing and compiling lightning strike data to bring the stranded satellite back online. This program includes lessons that prepare students to use essential skills like communication and problem solving along with math and science to function as teams working quickly to reinstate a critical provider of weather data for the United States.
Length: 2 hours
.
Moon, Mars and Beyond™ | Recommended: Grade 4
Lunar Outpost™ | Recommended: Grade 5
The year is 2036 and a permanent habitat has been constructed near the lunar South Pole. Teams of researchers regularly travel to the moon, making the trek to various outposts to continue the search for critical resources that will both sustain life on the surface and enable humans to travel to the Moon, Mars and beyond. However, when the lives and science goals of an incoming team of researchers are threatened, students are called into action to use their skills and training to save the mission. Can they select a safe, alternative research site, still rich in vital resources, before the crew runs out of time?
Length: 2.5 hours
Operation Monsterrat™ | Recommended: Grades 6-8
Orion: Moonbound™ | Recommended: Grades 9 - 10
NASA's Artemis program is laying the groundwork for humanity's return to the Moon. Students learn about data mining - using data and information to drive decisions - as they make sense of manufacturer test data related to critical mission systems. Teams analyze, organize, and submit a proposal with manufacturer recommendations and supporting evidence. On mission day, the group is challenged to use their critical skills: teamwork, problem-solving and communication to complete a mission simulation. Which team has the right stuff to be selected as a critical part of the next history-making launch back to the moon?
Length: 1.25 hours
extra space
Digital Discoveries (Grades K - 2)
Digital Discoveries are simple to integrate, but highly engaging activities for students to explore complex science topics that stretch the Earth and Space science standards for deeper understanding. Each packages includes:
- children's book
- follow on in-class activity
- interactive digital connection with Challenger Flight Director
- follow-up lessons
Digital Discovery Details
Connection Length: 60 minutes
Group Size: single class
Price: $225 - Includes teacher training, some classroom materials and a standards-based lesson plan
Kindergarten | Home Sweet Home
- Students access their newly learned understanding of local weather patterns and what animals need for survival to explore how this looks outside of our neighborhood and into the major biomes
Standards: K.PS3.1, K.PS3.2
Grade 1 | The Stars Are Always There
- Students launch from their understanding of patterns of the moon and the sun to learn about the other stars, via constellations
Standards: 1.ESS.1, 1.EES.2
Grade 2 | This Rock of Ours
- Students look closely at the events that have changed our Earth over time and in quick succession, making the geological timeline come to life.
Standard: 2.ESS1.1
