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    • STEM learning activities for summer from NASA

      New from NASA: this collection of fun activities can help ignite STEM learning at your summer program. Explore Sun science, participate in the Space Place monthly art missions, and join a Mars scavenger hunt!

      • Sun STEM Toolkit: Virtual and classroom resources related to the Sun
      • Sustainable Aviation STEM Toolkit: Virtual and classroom resources related to aviation
      • NASA Coloring Pages: Color and learn about some faraway worlds with these coloring pages
      • NASA for Students Grades K-4: Fun activities centered around all things NASA. Games, puzzles, color, and more.
      • Space Place Art Challenge: Space Place monthly art missions. Draw, color or paint the subject of the month.
      • First Woman Camp Experience: Hands-on activities that accompany NASA’s “First Woman” graphic novel series
      • NASA Visitor Centers: Interactive, instructional, and exciting activities and programs for students
      • Build To Launch with LEGO Education and Artemis I: An interactive digital learning adventure that explores the Artemis I mission to the Moon
      • Clean Room - Europa Clipper: Watch this live YouTube stream as NASA’s Europa Clipper, is built and tested
      • Learn the Phases of the Moon: Assemble a printable Moon Phases Calendar and Calculator
      • Night Sky Network: Astronomy clubs bring the wonders of the universe to the public
      • NASA Space Voyagers game: A strategy card game where students explore the solar system.
      • Mars Scavenger Hunt!: Students participate in a Martian mission by completing the Mars scavenger hunt

      More resources and information are available at stem.nasa.gov.

    • NGCP Transforming STEM: February 2023

      Click here to access the website - See how to get involved, stories and events to amplify, and resources to use. 

      This month we celebrate Black History Month, Engineers Week, and Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day with Texas Girls in STEM Day celebrated on March 1st. 

    • Storyline Online

      Click here to access the website - Resource for K-5 where videos feature celebrities reading books aloud. Activity guides for teachers are included.

      The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Daytime Emmy®-nominated and award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online®, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Oprah Winfrey, Chris Pine, Kristen Bell, Rita Moreno, Viola Davis, Jaime Camil, Kevin Costner, Lily Tomlin, Sarah Silverman, Betty White, Wanda Sykes, and dozens more.

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