Virtual Family Day: Amazing Earth
Create and discover with your family! Activities are designed for all ages.
From liquid water and a breathable atmosphere to the diversity of life, explore what makes our planet an amazing place to live!
Activities To Do At Home:
The links are all PDF documents.
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Pocket Solar System: Discover Earth's place in the Solar System!
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Create an Atmosphere Collage: Explore how our atmosphere makes life possible on Earth, and make a collage.
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Imagining Life: Investigate the diversity of life on Earth, and imagine what life could look like on alien worlds.
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Build A Spacecraft: Create a model spacecraft, and learn how scientists study the Earth from above.
Atmosphere collage example. Making a
Pocket Solar System.
Videos:
Earth's Wild Ride: Discover eclipses, the ice age, volcanoes, Earth's water cycle and more in this 20-minute
movie, told from the perspective of a grandfather and his grandchildren in a colony
on the Moon.
English version
Spanish version
Produced by ePlanetarium, in collaboration with Rice University through NASA's Immersive Earth Project.
Museum Minute: Watch short videos on Earth and outer space, by UAMN education staff. Each video includes ideas for activities to do at home.
Exploring Water
For more activities designed for kids ages 5 and under, go to our Virtual Early Explorers page.
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Museum Family Days are proudly presented by TOTE. THANK YOU!
UAMN is a proud partner of the National Informal STEM Education Network and member of the NASA Space Science Education Consortium.
This project was funded under NASA cooperative agreement NNX16AL65A. Any opinions,
findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those
of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.