NASA Astronomy and Space Lessons and Activities, Grades K-5
Here are 55 astronomy, space and engineering activities and lessons from NASA for primary grade students, grades K-5. Along with these in separate sections, I have included an additional 44 NASA activities for kids, and a “NASA Liftoff” 20-lesson interdisciplinary activities unit for grades K-4 covering science, math, technology and language arts topics. These learning and activity documents will help young people better understand and apply basic science and engineering concepts. Larger files are shown with their pages and file size. All documents are in pdf format, except where indicated.
- Asteroid Potatoes Activity
- Balloon Ions Activity (1 pg, 337KB)
- Balloon-powered Nanorover Activity
- Birdseed Wreath Activity
- Bubble-powered Rocket Activity
- Build a Moon Habitat
- Build Your Own Spacecraft Activity
- CD Saturn Activity
- Cloud Mobile Activity
- Comet on a Stick Activity
- Crystal Growth In Space Science Activity (4 pgs, 223KB)
- Earth Fan Activity (6 pgs, 356KB)
- El Niño Pudding Activity
- Energy Activity – Reinventing the Wheel, K-4 (4 pgs, 152KB)
- Energy Activity – Reinventing the Wheel Article with Pictures (19 pgs, 1.23MB)
- Galactic Mobile Activity
- GALEX Galaxy Montage Activity (2 pgs, 362KB)
- Gummy Greenhouse Gases Activity
- Handprint Art Activity (3 pgs, 338KB)
- Moon Cookies Activity (1 pg, 349KB)
- Moon Habitat Activity
- Moon Munchies Elementary Engineering Lessons 1-6, Introduction
- Moon Munchies Elementary Engineering Lessons 1-6, Design, Build & Evaluate (185 pgs, 3.82MB)
- Moon Munchies Lesson 1 Natural Resources on Earth (32 pgs, 743KB)
- Moon Munchies Lesson 2 Exploring the Moon (22 pgs, 304KB)
- Moon Munchies Lesson 3 Providing Light for Your Plants (20 pgs, 396KB)
- Moon Munchies Lesson 4 Watering Your Plants (15 pgs, 167KB)
- Moon Munchies Lesson 5 Designing the Lunar Plant Growth Chamber (30 pgs, 199KB)
- Moon Phases Activity, Grades 1-6 (10 pgs, 790KB) (.doc format, 1.05MB))
- Oreo Moon Phases Activity
- Pastel Aurora Activity
- Physics Machine Activity
- Pinwheel Galaxy Activity (4 pgs, 373KB)
- Planet Mask Activity
- Solar Energy Educator Guide, Grades K-4 (26 pgs, 595KB)
- Space Science Activities, Grades 3-5 (4 pgs, 599KB)
- Space Science Activities, Grades 6-8 (4 pgs, 607KB)
- Space Science Activities Teaching Guide, Grades 3-5 (8 pgs, 1.63MB)
- Space Science Activities Teaching Guide, Grades 6-8 (8 pgs, 1.53MB)
- Space Science Activities, NASA Robot Storybook (6 pgs, 267KB)
- Space Science Activities, Orbits2 (4 pgs, 157KB)
- Space Science Activities, Blackhole Poster (1 pg, 358KB)
- Space Science Activities, Blackhole Video.mp4 (6.40MB)
- Space Science Activities, Blackhole Worldbook
- Spacebots Educator Guide, Grades K-4 (30 pgs, 443KB)
- Spacebots Activity, Grades K-4 (5 pgs, 113KB)
- Stained Glass Earth Activity
- Star Cookies Activity
- Sun Paper Activity
- Sunspot Cookie Activity (8 pgs, 436KB)
- Super Sound Cone Activity (1 pg, 352KB)
- Topographical Clay Map Activity (2 pgs, 200KB)
- Topographical Map Activity (1 pg, 369KB)
- Universe Slime Activity
NASA For Kids Activities
- Adventures in Aeronautics Coloring Comic Book, Grades K-5 (23 pgs, 2.88MB)
- Astronaut Activities (1 pg, 179KB)
- Astronauts on Moon coloring
- Carbon Cycle (2 pgs, 622KB)
- Curiosity Rover coloring
- Draw the Scan Antennas (6 pg, 571KB)
- Earth Planet Mask
- Earth
- Exoplanet Travel Bureau Coloring Book (6 pgs, 1.03MB)
- Follow Your Curiosity Coloring Sheet (1 pg, 635KB)
- International Space Station Activity Book (42 pgs, 1.90MB)
- International Space Station coloring (1 pg, 231KB)
- Jupiter Planet Mask
- Jupiter
- Let’s Fly Away Color and Learn (17 pgs, 482KB)
- Main Moonbase coloring
- Mars Helicopter coloring
- Mars Planet Mask
- Mars
- Mercury Planet Mask
- Mercury
- Moon Vehicle coloring (1 pg, 253KB)
- NASA Space Spinoff Coloring Book (44 pgs, 1.96MB)
- NASA Space Station (1 pg, 274KB)
- Neptune Planet Mask
- Neptune
- Orion Connect the Dots (1 pg, 224KB)
- Orion Patch coloring (1 pg, 350KB)
- Orion Triangle Patch coloring (1 pg, 329KB)
- Orion Word Find, elementary school (1 pg, 245KB)
- Orion Word Find, middle school (1 pg, 245KB)
- Perseverance Rover coloring
- Saturn Planet Mask
- Saturn
- Scan Scavenger Hunt and Coloring page (2 pgs, 1.81MB)
- Space System Launch Coloring and Word Search Book (6 pgs, 532KB)
- Space Tech Funpad (36 pgs, 2.09MB)
- Telescope and Space Fun Pad (48 pgs, 5.15MB)
- Uranus Planet Mask
- Uranus
- Venus Planet Mask
- Venus
- Water Cycle (2 pgs, 786KB)
- Where Does the Solar System End (1 pg, 850KB)
NASA Liftoff Off Interdisciplinary Lessons and Activities, Grades K-4
- Liftoff Introduction (10 pgs, 313KB)
- Liftoff Activity Overview. Educators Guide (104 pgs, 2.82MB)
- Liftoff Activity 1 Station Information (4 pgs, 143KB)
- Liftoff Activity 2 Destination Station (8 pgs, 241KB)
- Liftoff Activity 3 Countdown Begins (5 pgs, 166KB)
- Liftoff Activity 4 Simple Rocket Science (5 pgs, 169KB)
- Liftoff Activity 5 More Rocket Science (3 pgs, 103KB)
- Liftoff Activity 6 Launch Time (6 pgs, 190KB)
- Liftoff Activity 7 The Right Order (8 pgs, 265KB)
- Liftoff Activity 8 Good Enough To Eat (6 pgs, 209KB)
- Liftoff Activity 9 Rocket Construction (6 pgs, 194KB)
- Liftoff Activity 10 Rocket Alphabet (5 pgs, 167KB)
- Liftoff Activity 11 Rocket Rhymes and Songs (11 pgs, 244KB)
- Liftoff Activity 12 Rocket Math (5 pgs, 170KB)
- Liftoff Activity 13 Rocket Patterns (5 pgs, 163KB)
- Liftoff Activity 14 Number Rockets (3 pgs, 113KB)
- Liftoff Activity 15 Rockets By Size (7 pgs, 216KB)
- Liftoff Activity 16 Getting In Shape (3 pgs, 111KB)
- Liftoff Activity 17 Getting In Shape Again (5 pgs, 159KB)
- Liftoff Activity 18 Hide and Seek Rocket (3 pgs, 112KB)
- Liftoff Activity 19 Rocket Problems (3 pgs, 106KB)
- Liftoff Activity 20 Fact and Fiction (3 pgs, 110KB)
- Liftoff Glossary (4 pgs, 141KB)
- Liftoff Graphics (16 pgs, 462KB)
- Liftoff Standards (6 pgs, 193KB)
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