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The Space Place Calendar

With fun days to celebrate at The Space Place.
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Help for Cub Scouts!

Work on Cub Scout Achievements and Electives at the Space Place!
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Help with Cadette & Senior Girl Scouts

Earn Cadette and Senior Girl Scout Badges at The Space Place
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Activities for the Classroom

Adaptable for grades 4-8, some for grades 9-12.
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Build a Bubble-Powered Rocket!

How high can you make your rocket go?
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Build a physics machine!

And learn about conservation of oomph!
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Make Moon cookies

These are yummy and need no baking.
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Build a Moon Habitat!

Help the astronauts go back to the Moon.
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Make a GALEX Galaxy Montage

Make a colorful work of galactic art.
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Power Up with Tortillas!

What do tortillas and rocket fuel have in common?
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Make a topographic map!

Build your own mountain, then map it.
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Make a relief map jigsaw puzzle

Build your own world with mountains, lakes, and volcanoes.
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Make a Balloon-powered Nanorover!

A fun project to do with the family.
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Whip up some El Niño pudding!

A yummy dessert that maps the ocean's heat.
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Make colorful star cookies!

Find out why stars aren't all the same color.
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Help with Junior Girl Scouts

Earn Junior Girl Scout Badges at The Space Place
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$Math-related Activities$
Math-related Activities

Classroom activities and other Space Place pages.
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Make a Galactic Mobile

Let the beauty of the galaxies shine in your room.
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Guide your spacecraft through a space maze

Print and do mazes.
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Make a Star Finder

Make one for this month and find your favorite constellation.
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Space Place Desktop Wallpaper

Download Space Place background images for your desktop.
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Ions in action

You will get a charge out of this activity!
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Be glad you're not a cyclops!

Why do we need two eyes?
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Help design the Deep Space 1 spacecraft

The very first spacecraft with ion drive!
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Get nosey!

Does your nose know enough for space travel?
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"See" inside a closed box!

Map a 3-D map of the invisible.
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Stump your friends with your mosaic robot puzzle!

See space robots in action.
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Make a CD Saturn

Turn an old CD into Saturn's rings.
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Test a new spacecraft material

Crush a can without touching it!
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Coloring Book

Color on the computer or print out the pages.
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Hear tiny sounds with a Super Sound Cone!

Hear tiny sounds you never noticed before!
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Meet our community partners

Museums, planetariums, libraries in every state.
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Launch a rocket from a spinning planet

Wind up that launch pad!
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Make a Cloud Mobile

These pretty clouds move, but do not go away.
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Get your Gummy Greenhouse Gases!

Make pollutants from gumdrops, then gobble them up!
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Make asteroids you can eat!

Make yummy potatoes look like asteroids.
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The Air We Breathe

A picture book about Earth's atmosphere and its importance to life on Earth. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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Echo the Bat

Follow Echo through Arizona on his adventure to his winter home for hibernating. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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Amelia the Pigeon

Amelia the Pigeon has a camera and photographs everything from above. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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