Free live space tools matched to the Georgia Standards of Excellence for Science, Kindergarten to high school Astronomy and Physics: each with a 10-minute activity and printable worksheets.
Last updated . Curriculum links last reviewed November 2026.
The sky by day and night in Kindergarten, the Sun, stars and Moon in Grade 2, and stars, planets and Earth's motion in Grade 4.
Where the ISS is right now, and how fast it is going.
describe how the sky changes from day to night and back to day, and make a picture model of it.
Show the tracker and find Georgia. Is it day or night here? Point to a place where it is night. Students draw a three-part strip: the morning sky, the night sky, the next morning sky.
How to tell a plane, a planet, a satellite and a star apart.
sort the Sun, Moon and stars by whether we see them in the day sky, the night sky or both.
Make three hoops on the floor: day, night, both. Students place picture cards of the Sun, the Moon, the stars and the ISS. Which one surprises them? (The Moon can be in both.)
A live 3D globe of our nearest star.
argue that the Sun is a medium-sized star that only looks the biggest and brightest because it is the closest.
Spin the Sun globe. Hold one flashlight near the class and another at the far end of the room: which looks brighter? Use it to explain why the Sun outshines every other star.
Where the ISS is right now, and how fast it is going.
record how long day and night last and spot that days are longer in summer than in winter.
Keep a class chart: each Monday, note your town's sunrise and sunset times and color in the daylight hours. On the tracker, look at the night side's shape: in December it covers the far north all day.
A live 3D Moon, lit the way it is right now.
describe and draw how the Moon's shape changes, and predict what it will look like next.
Start the Moon diary today: draw the live Moon. Each evening this week, draw it again if you can see it. On Friday, put the drawings in order and predict next week's shape.
The telescopes working in space, from Hubble to JWST, and what each one is for.
ask questions about how telescopes have changed what we can learn about stars and planets.
Show Jupiter as it looks by eye (a bright dot) and in a space telescope picture (bands and storms). What could scientists find out only with the telescope? Write three questions.
A live map of the solar system, with every working deep-space spacecraft where it is today.
explain why nearer stars look brighter, and judge how well a solar-system model shows sizes and distances.
Can the live map show the planets' sizes and distances to scale at the same time? Build a class model with a 1 m Sun: Earth becomes a 9 mm bead about 107 m away. Why do most models get this wrong?
A real-time 3D globe of Mars.
explain how stars differ from planets: stars make their own light, planets reflect it and go round a star.
Spin the Mars globe. Is Mars a star or a planet? List three differences between Mars and the Sun. Why does Mars look like a star in the night sky?
Where the ISS is right now, and how fast it is going.
model why day length changes through the year and how Earth's tilt causes the seasons.
Look at the night side's shape on the tracker today. Tilt a globe toward a lamp for June and away for December, and watch how long Georgia stays lit as it turns. Then do the ISS sunrises sheet.
A live 3D Moon, lit the way it is right now.
use observations to model the Moon's cycle of phases, from new Moon to full Moon and back.
Darken the room. A lamp is the Sun; a ball on a stick is the Moon. Students hold the ball out and turn slowly, watching the lit part grow and shrink. Compare the model with today's live Moon.
Satellites and rocket stages due to come back down, and when.
argue that gravity changes how objects move, using satellites that fall back to Earth as evidence.
Find an object due to come back down this month. What has been pulling on it all along? Why does it fall now and not years ago? (Thin air at its height slowly drags it lower.)
Matched to S6E1 (the universe and the solar system) and S6E2 (the Sun, Earth and Moon).
The telescopes working in space, from Hubble to JWST, and what each one is for.
ask how our model of Earth's place in the universe changed as new evidence arrived.
Make a timeline: Earth at the center, then the Sun at the center, then the Sun as one star in a galaxy, then billions of galaxies. Under each step, write the evidence or tool that changed minds.
A live map of the solar system, with every working deep-space spacecraft where it is today.
model where the solar system sits in the Milky Way and in the universe.
Write your full space address: school, town, Georgia, USA, Earth, solar system, Milky Way, universe. Use the live map for the first steps and a telescope picture of a spiral galaxy for the rest.
A real-time 3D globe of Mars.
compare a planet with Earth by size, surface, air, distance from the Sun and ability to support life.
Fill a comparison card for Mars against Earth: size, surface, air, temperature, distance from the Sun. Could Mars support life as we know it? What would astronauts need to bring?
Every tracked satellite in orbit, moving live.
model how gravity and inertia together keep satellites, moons and planets moving in orbits.
Watch the satellites move on the live globe. Swing a soft ball on a string: the string is gravity, and the ball's tendency to go straight is inertia. What happens when you let go? Link it to a satellite.
Asteroids and comets passing close to the Earth.
compare comets, asteroids and meteoroids by what they are made of, their size and where they are found.
Find one asteroid on the close-approach list, then check the Meteor tracker for the next shower and the comet it comes from. Make a three-column chart: asteroid, comet, meteoroid. What is a shooting star, really?
A live 3D Moon, lit the way it is right now.
model the Moon's phases from the positions of the Sun, Earth and Moon.
Check today's live Moon. Draw a top-down diagram with the Sun on the left and place the Moon where it must be to look like this today. Then predict the date of the next full Moon.
Every upcoming eclipse, and how much of the Sun will be covered from your town.
explain what causes solar and lunar eclipses and why they do not happen every month.
Find the next eclipse you could see from Atlanta. Is it solar or lunar? Model it with a lamp, a ball and a bead, then tilt the bead's path slightly: why do most months have no eclipse?
Where the ISS is right now, and how fast it is going.
use data to link Earth's tilt to how sunlight spreads over the year, and so to the seasons.
On the tracker, note how far north the night side reaches today. Shine a flashlight straight down and then at a slant: which patch is brighter? Use that to explain why summer is warmer.
Gravity as a force that acts at a distance (S8P5) and Newton's laws in a launch (S8P3).
Real-time 3D globes of the Moon, Mars and the Sun.
argue that gravity acts between objects without touching them, and that its pull depends on the world you stand on.
Weigh a backpack on a spring scale. Use the Moon and Mars values (1.6 and 3.7 N/kg) to work out what the scale would read there. What reaches across space to pull the Moon toward Earth?
Every upcoming rocket launch, and when it lifts off.
use Newton's laws to explain how unbalanced forces change a rocket's motion at liftoff.
Pick the next launch. At liftoff, is the thrust bigger or smaller than the rocket's weight? Draw a force diagram for the moment it leaves the pad and name the law that explains the exhaust going down.
For Astronomy (40.02100), Earth Systems (40.06400), Physics (40.08100) and Physical Science (40.01100).
When the space station passes over your town, to the minute, and where to look.
explain how your latitude and the time of year decide which objects you can see in the sky.
Get the next ISS pass over Atlanta. The station's orbit is tilted 51.6 degrees: could you see it from the North Pole? Name one constellation you can see from Georgia that most of Australia never sees.
A live 3D Moon, lit the way it is right now.
model how the positions of the Earth, Moon and Sun produce phases, eclipses, tides and seasons.
From today's phase, work out the angle between the Moon and the Sun. Predict this week's tides at Savannah: spring or neap? Explain what extra condition an eclipse needs.
Orbit details for thousands of satellites: height, period and inclination.
use mathematics to connect Kepler's third law to Newton's law of gravitation with real satellites.
Use five satellites to show that the period squared over the radius cubed stays the same. Derive that constant from Newton's law for a circular orbit, then use it to find Earth's mass.
A live map of the solar system, with every working deep-space spacecraft where it is today.
convert between kilometers, astronomical units, light-years and parsecs using real spacecraft distances.
Read Voyager 1's distance. Convert it to astronomical units and to light-hours. How many Voyager distances fit into one parsec (about 206,265 AU)?
The telescopes working in space, from Hubble to JWST, and what each one is for.
analyze how telescopes across the spectrum, and the spectra they record, reveal what objects are made of and how they move.
Look at a light through a diffraction grating or the back of a CD. Then pick two telescopes on the page that work at different wavelengths and explain one discovery each, including one about a planet around another star.
A live 3D globe of our nearest star.
model the Sun's makeup, with fusion in the core and a balance between gravity and pressure.
Spin the live Sun and draw its layers from core to corona. Add two arrows at the surface: gravity pulling in, pressure pushing out. What happens to a star when its fuel runs low?
Asteroids and comets passing close to the Earth.
describe the solar system's small bodies and zones, and use them as evidence for how the solar system formed.
Pick an asteroid on the close-approach list. Did it come from the main belt, the Kuiper belt or the Oort cloud? Why do scientists call asteroids leftover building blocks of the planets?
The telescopes working in space, from Hubble to JWST, and what each one is for.
argue from evidence for the big bang: the expanding universe, the cosmic background radiation and the cosmological principle.
Teams each take one line of evidence and present it in two minutes with a telescope from the page. The class then votes: which evidence would be hardest for a rival theory to explain?
Every upcoming rocket launch, and when it lifts off.
argue why space exploration matters for technology, cooperation between nations, knowledge and inspiration.
Choose one launch from the schedule. What does it carry and who benefits? Write a short argument on whether it is worth the cost, with one example each of technology, cooperation and inspiration.
Where the ISS is right now, and how fast it is going.
calculate the centripetal acceleration that keeps the ISS in orbit and name the force that provides it.
Use the station's speed and height to find v squared over r, with r measured from Earth's center. Compare it with g at that height (about 8.6 m/s squared at 420 km). What does the match tell you?
Low, medium, geostationary and polar orbits, and what each one is used for.
model how mass, distance and force relate in Newton's law of universal gravitation.
Find the height where an orbit takes exactly one day. Use Newton's law with Earth's mass to check the 35,786 km figure. Why do all geostationary satellites sit at the same height?
Real-time 3D globes of the Moon, Mars and the Sun.
use data to relate an object's mass to the gravitational force on it, here and on other worlds.
Make a table of masses from 1 to 5 kg and their weight on Earth, the Moon and Mars. Graph weight against mass for each world. What does the slope of each line mean?
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