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In this engineering challenge, students must stay within design limitations while creating a balloon and gondola system that can descend or ascend at a given rate or maintain its altitude.

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Make a Planetary Exploration Balloon

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Make a Planetary Exploration Balloon

In this engineering challenge, students must stay within design limitations while creating a balloon and gondola system that can descend or ascend at a given rate or maintain its altitude.
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Students develop spreadsheet models that describe the relationship between the mass of a spacecraft using electric propulsion, the force acting on the spacecraft, and its acceleration.

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Modeling Additive Velocity With Spreadsheets

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Modeling Additive Velocity With Spreadsheets

Students develop spreadsheet models that describe the relationship between the mass of a spacecraft using electric propulsion, the force acting on the spacecraft, and its acceleration.
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Students design a robotic insect for an extraterrestrial environment, then compare the process to how NASA engineers design robots for extreme environments like Mars.

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Design a Robotic Insect

Students design a robotic insect for an extraterrestrial environment, then compare the process to how NASA engineers design robots for extreme environments like Mars.
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Students use mobile devices to measure the impact a solar eclipse has on the energy received at Earth’s surface.

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Measuring Solar Energy During an Eclipse

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Measuring Solar Energy During an Eclipse

Students use mobile devices to measure the impact a solar eclipse has on the energy received at Earth’s surface.
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Students use playdough to model how Earth’s crust is bent and folded by tectonic plates over geologic time.

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Modeling Crustal Folds

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Modeling Crustal Folds

Students use playdough to model how Earth’s crust is bent and folded by tectonic plates over geologic time.
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NASA The Colors of Ice introduces students to the topics of polarized light and birefringence. Working in groups, students use polarizing films to examine the crystal structure of ice. They document their results using digital images and organize their work by creating a multimedia presentation. Students apply what they have learned by creating 3D sculptures to be viewed through cross-polarizers. Students analyze cross sections of natural and manmade ice to transfer learning to a real-world application. 

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 NASA The Great Boomerang Challenge gets students to think and act like engineers and scientists as they follow the eight steps of the engineering design process to successfully complete a team challenge. Within this task, students design, build, test and re-design a boomerang. Once the boomerang is built, students explain and demonstrate how different forces affect its flight. Students research and explore basic aerodynamics forces and explain their applications to boomerang flight. Students compare what they observe with a Teaching From Space NASA eClips(TM) video segment to learn ... 

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 NASA's Abiotic Conditions challenges students to lift an ice cube floating in water using only a piece of string and salt. This introduces students to the concept of water's phase changes. Students investigate the freezing point of distilled water and solutions and modify and perform a self-designed experiment. 

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 NASA's Balloon Aerodynamics Challenge 1 and 2 allows students to think and act like scientists and engineers as they follow the steps of the Design Process to complete the team challenge. Learners design, measure, build, test and re-design a neutrally buoyant helium balloon and demonstrate how different forces affect motion. Learners apply what they have learned about balloons and density to design a series of balloons that float at different heights. 

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Versión en EspañolWhether it's sending spacecraft to other planets, driving rovers on Mars, finding out what planets are made of or how deep alien oceans are, pi takes us far at NASA. Here are just some of the ways pi helps us explore space.Explore MoreTake the NASA Pi Day ChallengeHow Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?Pi Day Challenge Lessons for EducatorsShare: What's Going 'Round for Pi Day? 

1. Parachuting on Mars While no Mars landing is exactly the same, they do share one thing in common: parachutes.
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In this engineering challenge, students must stay within design limitations while creating a balloon and gondola system that can descend or ascend at a given rate or maintain its altitude.

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Make a Planetary Exploration Balloon

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Make a Planetary Exploration Balloon

In this engineering challenge, students must stay within design limitations while creating a balloon and gondola system that can descend or ascend at a given rate or maintain its altitude.
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	ScienceGrades 3 - 12Motion and Forces

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Students develop spreadsheet models that describe the relationship between the mass of a spacecraft using electric propulsion, the force acting on the spacecraft, and its acceleration.

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Modeling Additive Velocity With Spreadsheets

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Modeling Additive Velocity With Spreadsheets

Students develop spreadsheet models that describe the relationship between the mass of a spacecraft using electric propulsion, the force acting on the spacecraft, and its acceleration.
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Students use mobile devices to measure the impact a solar eclipse has on the energy received at Earth’s surface.

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Measuring Solar Energy During an Eclipse

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Measuring Solar Energy During an Eclipse

Students use mobile devices to measure the impact a solar eclipse has on the energy received at Earth’s surface.
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In this illustrated math problem, students use pi to measure the water depth of an area mapped by the CORAL mission.

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Coral Calculus: A 'Pi in the Sky' Math Challenge

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Coral Calculus: A 'Pi in the Sky' Math Challenge

In this illustrated math problem, students use pi to measure the water depth of an area mapped by the CORAL mission.
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In this illustrated problem set, students use pi to compare the sizes of Mars landing areas, calculate the length of a year for a distant solar system object, measure the depth of the ocean from an airplane, and determine the diameter of a debris disk.

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But pi isn’t just used for exploring the cosmos. Since pi can be used to find the area or circumference of round objects and the volume or surface area of shapes like cylinders, cones, and spheres, it is useful in all sorts of ways. Transportation teams use pi when determining the size of new subway tunnels. Electricians can use pi when calculating the current or voltage passing through circuits. And you might even use pi to figure out how much fencing is needed around a circular school garden bed. In the United States, March 14 can be written as 3.14, which is why that date was chosen for celebrating all things pi. In 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution officially designating March 14 as Pi Day and encouraging teachers and students to celebrate the day with activities that teach students about pi. And that's precisely what the NASA Pi Day Challenge is all about! The Science Behind the 2024 NASA Pi Day ChallengeThis 11th installment of the NASA Pi Day Challenge includes four illustrated math problems designed to get students thinking like scientists and engineers to calculate how to get a laser message to Earth, the change in an asteroid’s orbit, the amount of data that can be collected by an Earth satellite, and how a team of mini rovers will map portions of the Moon’s surface.Read on to learn more about the science and engineering behind each problem or click the link below to jump right into the challenge. › Take the NASA Pi Day Challenge› Educators, get the lesson here!Receiver RiddleIn December 2023, NASA tested a new way to communicate with distant spacecraft using technology called Deep Space Optical Communications, or DSOC. From 19,000,000 miles (30,199,000 km) away, the Psyche spacecraft beamed a high-definition video encoded in a near-infrared laser to Earth. The video, showing a cat named Taters chasing a laser, traveled at the speed of light, where it was received at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory. Because of the great distance the laser had to travel, the team needed to aim the transmission at where Earth would be when the signal arrived. In Receiver Riddle, use pi to determine where along Earth's orbit the team needed to aim the laser so that it could be received at the Observatory at the correct moment.
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The fascinating history of America’s first space satellite serves as a launching point for lessons in engineering design, motion and flight, and Earth science.

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STEM Lessons for Educators – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
In this illustrated problem set, students use pi to compare the sizes of Mars landing areas, calculate the length of a year for a distant solar system object, measure the depth of the ocean from an airplane, and determine the diameter of a debris disk.
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	MathematicsGrades 7 - 12Number and Operations

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In this illustrated math problem, students use pi to compare the area of the Hubble Space Telescope and Webb Telescope’s primary mirror.

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Rad Reflection: A ‘Pi in the Sky’ Math Challenge

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Rad Reflection: A ‘Pi in the Sky’ Math Challenge

In this illustrated math problem, students use pi to compare the area of the Hubble Space Telescope and Webb Telescope’s primary mirror.
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In this illustrated problem set, students use pi to calculate the size of a Mars rock sample, compare the mirrors of two space telescopes, deduce an asteroid's makeup, and size up a solar eclipse.

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Pi in the Sky 10

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Pi in the Sky 10

In this illustrated problem set, students use pi to calculate the size of a Mars rock sample, compare the mirrors of two space telescopes, deduce an asteroid's makeup, and size up a solar eclipse.
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In this illustrated math problem, students use the mathematical constant pi to determine how quickly the Ingenuity helicopter's blades must rotate in order for it to fly.

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Whirling Wonder: A 'Pi in the Sky' Math Challenge

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Whirling Wonder: A 'Pi in the Sky' Math Challenge

In this illustrated math problem, students use the mathematical constant pi to determine how quickly the Ingenuity helicopter's blades must rotate in order for it to fly.
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In this illustrated math problem, students use the mathematical constant pi to determine the force observed by a hydrogen ion trapped in Earth's magnetic field.

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Force Field: A 'Pi in the Sky' Math Challenge