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This interactive lesson from SpaceTEC's National Aerospace Technical Education Center presents an overview of the aerospace workplace. It includes videos discussing topics in the aerospace field including the history of rockets and space pioneers, the principles of rocketry and orbital dynamics,...

This video from SpaceTEC National Aerospace Technical Education Center explains the General Systems Model and how consider the entire system when performing aerospace work. This three and a half minute video is part of the aerospace certification readiness courses.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers a variety of videos about the earth, solar system, stars and galaxies, and technology. Video titles include A Tresure Trove of Planets Found, Enceladus: Mystery of the Icy Moon, Spacecraft Power, Crazy Engineering: Flying Solar to Jupiter, and many more. Videos...

This website, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, describes the activities of the Mobility and Robotic Systems Section, as well as related robotics efforts around the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Flight projects, applications, and research tasks of the section are all detailed. There are also...

This is the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's launch page for all things related to Landsat science education. The Landsat program has been collecting spectral information of the earth's surface for over 40 years--the longest continual record of images of our planet. This website ...

This lesson plan and activity guide from The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA) and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) teaches students about matter on the atomic and subatomic scale.  Learning objectives are included on this webpage with a link to the downloadable...

Created by the Stanford Solar Center, this collection of activities serve as guides for those interested in observing the sun. Information on building pinhole cameras, using telescopes, accessing an online solar telescope, observing eclipses, and sketching sunspots is included. Intended for K-12...

This video from SpaceTEC National Aerospace Technical Education Center explains the mechanics of orbital dynamics and Newton's First Law of Motion. This three minute video is one of the aerospace certification readiness courses.

This activity is provided by the Stanford Solar Center and demonstrates one of Galileo's telescope observations: the phases of Venus change. This activity includes information on the duration of the activity, student prerequisites, teacher preparation and supplies needed, objectives, terms, and the...

This video from SpaceTEC National Aerospace Technical Education Center explains the theory of rocket engines using Newton's Third Law of Motion. This five minute video is part of the aerospace certification readiness courses.