Author Sandra Nickel and Illustrator Aimee Sicurro discuss and read their book "The Stuff Between the Stars: How Vera Rubin Discovered Most of the Universe"
In this story, the Sun visits their star friends that can be found in our neighborhood of the Milky Way.
When Ruth finds a box of old comic books in her attic, the three friends are inspired to write and film their own science fiction movie with aliens, robots, and space explorers.
In this story the characters' pretend visit to the International Space Station!
"Three High'Flying Friends," which tells the story of Amelia Earhart, Ruth Nichols, and Louise Thaden who were friends that shared a love of flying.
The three friends help a neighbor whose hat blows away and find out about weathervanes and wind direction. They make windsocks and spinning garden decorations.
Students explore slope calculations by calculating glide slope of planes landing on aircraft carriers.
Install the Google Arts & Culture app to explore virtual reality tours from Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
If you visited another world, you would notice a change in your weight, because the force of gravity acting on you there would be different from the force of gravity here on Earth.
Students will be better able to discuss and describe what happens when air heats, and test their hypothesis with a hands-on demo
Students will customize a hot air balloon using a non-typical shape and calculate volume
When astronaut John Glenn made history as the first American in orbit, his custom spacesuit helped him make the journey.
Learn how things fly
See how Magdeburg hemispheres demonstrate the properties of air pressure.
Learn about the properties of air and air pressure
Learn about Bernoulli's principle with these brain teasers
Learn how bouyancy makes a hot air balloon or blimp float.
Learn more about controlled flight with several activities.
Create Your Own Paper Airplane
Learn how shock waves are generated as aircraft fly close to the speed of sound.