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Supporting Resources |
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Hands-On Activities |
JWST Mad Science: Seeing Starlight with the James Webb Space Telescope - In this activity for ages 8-12, learners make bracelets representing different parts of a star’s lifecycle and learn how Webb will study the beginnings of a star’s life. LOW BAND |
NASA's Universe of Learning - The Expanded Universe: Playing with Time. In this activity, participants use balloons to model the expansion of the universe and observe how expansion affects wavelengths of light and distance between galaxies. LOW BAND |
NASA's Universe of Learning - Trappist-1 System Scale Model, these materials may be used to create a scale model of the TRAPPIST-1 system in a small space. LOW BAND |
NASA's Universe of Learning - Light and Color: Exploring Visible Light. This activity introduces learners to the visible-light spectrum and color mixing. |
NISE Network - Exploring the Universe: Filtered Light |
| Girls STEAM Ahead with NASA Program Cookbook Recipe 1: The Electromagnetic Spectrum. Facilitator guidebook that utilizes resources from NASA's Universe of Learning to create impactful programming. |
| Girls STEAM Ahead with NASA Program Cookbook Recipe 2: Data Imaging and Processing. Facilitator guidebook that utilizes resources from NASA's Universe of Learning to create impactful programming. |
| Girls STEAM Ahead with NASA Program Cookbook Recipe 3: Celebrating Women in STEM. Facilitator guidebook that utilizes resources from NASA's Universe of Learning to create impactful programming. |
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Digital Activities |
Analyze the makeup and composition of distant galaxies with Webb's MicroshuttersInteractive. |
| Explore the universe like never before in the fully immersive WebbVR experience. |
| ViewSpace is a free, web-based collection of digital interactives and videos highlighting the latest developments in astronomy and Earth science. |
| Eyes on Exoplanets is a fully rendered 3D universe that is scientifically accurate, allowing you to zoom in for a close look at more than 1,000 exotic planets known to orbit distant stars. |
| Astropix offers access to the public image galleries of many of the leading astronomical observatories under a single unified interface. |
| MicroObservatory is a network of automated telescopes that can be controlled over the Internet. |
Program Models and Activity Guides |
NASA's Universe of Learning: Informal Learning Network Program Models, Informal learning institutions have developed and tested sustainable models of innovative STEM learning for their audiences utilizing NASA astrophysics and resources. LOW BAND |
This Guide to infrared for high-school age groups will present readers with a variety of basic information about infrared light, including hands-on experiments and math problems that will quickly make you an ‘Expert’ in the basic science being carried out by Webb. LOW BAND |
Tool Kits & Professional Development Experiences |
James Webb Space Telescope STEM Toolkit has resources, activities, videos and more for your students to learn about NASA's newest space observatory. |
| Attend ongoing professional learning experiences that cover a range of science topics and allow plenty of time for informal educators to ask questions with NASA's Universe of Learning Science Briefings. |
Activity Challenges and Labs |
Get involved in the AstroPhoto Challenge this Summer! Allow participants to process images from NASA’s Space Telescopes or to capture and process their own image. |
In NOVA Exoplanet Lab, students will play the role of Moon-based "NOVAnauts" who are on a series of missions as part of a "Galactic Resettlement Team" to rehome several displaced alien life-form and master the same techniques scientists use to find and characterize exoplanets. |
Citizen Science - Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 NASA-funded citizen science project searching the realm beyond Neptune for brown dwarfs and Planet Nine. |
External Network Resource lists |
NISE Net resources for informal educators and activities. The National Informal STEM Education Network brings people together to engage in STEM, understand our world, and build a better future for everyone. |
