For Educators -> Informal Education

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Lesson Plans, Activities & Programs for Informal Education

• New! Life Cycle Of a Massive Star Activity - String beads on a bookmark to represent the stages a massive star goes through during its life cycle: Bookmark (pdf) and Activity (pdf).

• New! Build-It-Yourself: Satellite! - An educational game for high school and college age students, where they get to be the scientist by building their own satellite.

• Scope It Out! - An educational game for middle and high school students, which compares a simple telescope to both the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. Approved by the NASA Education Product review. Lesson plans available.

• Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum - Exploring Telescopes Discovery Station (pdf) - A set of telescope-themed activities designed for the informal-education setting. Features the James Webb Space Telescope, and includes contributions by educators Ryan Hannahoe and Peter Detterline.

• Webb Telescope Fun Pad (pdf) - a fun pad of activities for children ages 5-10, as well as basic information about the telescope.

• NASA e-Clips - a site of short, educational videos. The link will take you to the ones about the James Webb Space Telescope, including "Launchpad: Cryogenics - The Cold Hard Facts".

Informal Education from Our Partner Institutions

• Build the Webb's Mirror - An activity from Ball Aerospace to learn about how the Webb's mirror is segmented. For younger children.

• Everything Emits Infrared Energy - Even You! - An activity from Ball Aerospace to learn about infrared energy/light.

• Webb coloring page (.pdf) - A picture of Web, from Ball Aerospace, that can be printed out and colored in.

• NIRCam Education & Outreach - This is the website for EPO material associated with the Near InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) instrument (by University of Arizona). There are activities available, which were developed and are used regularly for their workshops with the Girl Scouts.

Links to other Education & Outreach Resources

• Amazing Space: A set of Web-based activities from the Space Telescope Science Institute. These are primarily designed for classroom use, but made available for all to enjoy.
• Cool Cosmos: Learn more about infrared light, astronomy, and the world around us. Spectacular images, fun games, resources for educators, and more!

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