For anyone stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic, NASA is loaded with Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics projects and activities for all age ranges and interests.

Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics

NASA STEM @ Home for Students Grades K-4 offers dozens of how-to animations, guides, worksheets and more for children in kindergarten through fourth grade to do, sometimes alone and sometimes with their parents. Topics are far ranging, including things like an Apollo moon capsule craft, an edible cookie and pretzel spacecraft, space puzzles, a balloon-powered rocket, spacewalk coloring sheets, a 3-D dodecahedron paper airplane, printable space board games, storybooks, a straw plane and much more.

NASA STEM Activities for Families includes things like parachute design, building and launching a foam rocket, hovering on a cushion of balloon air, designing and building a solar water heater, filtering water, building a rubber band-powered rover, making a moon phase calculator and calendar, making a moon-like crater, creating a Mars exploration game, solving math problems using Pi, and much more.

NASA for Students in Fifth to Eighth Grades has things to do like making a paper model of the moon, an advanced paper airplane and stretchy slime; links to hundreds of online NASA website, materials and videos created for the age group; and wide-ranging articles like What Is the International Space Station? and What Is a Rockets?

NASA STEM Resources for Students 9-12 offers opportunities like the CineSpace competition, sending experiments to the International Space Station and the Blue Origins Club; videos like Where does the Suns energy come from? and Faces of Technology; activities like virtual reality and simulations; and projects like making starshades and rover models; and problems like talking to machines and the basics of spaceflight.

NASA Citizen Science Opportunities range from astronomy with opportunities like working with online photos to map the Moon, Mercury and Mars, and counting meteors, to the I See Change program, a community weather and climate journal for participants nationwide that combine citizen observations (photos and text) with cutting-edge weather and satellite data.

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