New Educational Games Available at NASA.gov

NASA has introduced four new educational games geared toward students in grades K-8.

Build Your Own Space Mission — Grades K-2

In this interactive game, students choose a scientist, laboratory, spacecraft and destination as they design their own space mission. After packing the spacecraft into a rocket, they watch it blast off to their destination of choice. http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/edu_game/

Astro-Matic 3000 — Grades K-8

Use the Astro-Matic 3000 to learn how much you would weigh or how old you would be if you lived on another planet. Students also learn facts about each planet. Astro-Matic 3000 supports the following national education standards and benchmarks:

• National Science Education Standards: Objects in the sky.
• National Science Education Standards: Earth in the solar system.
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standard: Recognize the attributes of length, volume, weight, area and time.

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Astro-Matic_3000.html

Let’s Fly Away Airplane Dodecahedron — Grades K-8 In the interactive version, students click and drag the dodecahedron to see NASA aircraft. They also can read about the aircraft and print full color pictures or a coloring page. In the Build Your Own activity, students print, color and construct their own dodecahedron featuring 12 different NASA aircraft.

Let’s Fly Away supports the following national education standards:

• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: Identify, compare and analyze attributes of two- and three-dimensional shapes and develop vocabulary to describe the attributes.
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: Describe attributes and parts of two- and three-dimensional shapes.
• National Science Education Standards: Science as a human endeavor.

Interactive Dodecahedron http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/clubhouse/Lets_Fly_Away.html

Build Your Own Dodecahedron http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Lets_Fly_Away.html

Put It Together Puzzle — Grades K-6

In this interactive online game, students build online puzzles of NASA pictures. Put It Together supports the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standard:

• Understand patterns, relations and functions.

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Put_It_Together.html