2023 Step UP! Space

This workshop was all about space and our Solar System. Children sang The Sun Song, read books, learned how NASA scientists landed on Mars, created a Mars helicopter origami, and were engaged on the NASA Engineering Challenge making a paper Starshade.

Activity Materials

• Slide Presentation (pdf format)

• Youtube video: The Sun Song - Scratch Garden

• Youtube video: NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Landing Animations

• Youtube video: Crazy Engineering: Starshade/Coronagraph

• Make a Mars Helicopter Instructions 

• Space Origami: Make Your Own Starshade Directions

• Books:

  • Mars! Earthlings Welcome by Stacy McAnulty and Stevie Lewis

    • Read Aloud video 

  • Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed (Writer) and Stasia Burrington (Illustrator)

• Game: Code a Mars Helicopter Video Game

• Earth-Moon-Mars Facts

• Space flyer

• Paper Activities

  • A Journal Entry

  • Paper Dolls Astronauts

  • Landing Pad

  • Starshade template

  • Earth-Moon-Mars

• Earth-Moon-Mars Exit Ticket