As a unique component of LASP’s Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) efforts—and as an accompanying feature to many of our standards-based lessons—we have developed a series of interactive lessons. Here is a collection of our educational interactives.
Chromebook users: Some Chromebooks can run the Android versions of our apps.
Project SPECTRA!
This app contains interactive versions of the following lessons:
- Enceladus, I Barely Knew You – Does Enceladus have an atmosphere?
- Marvelous Martian Mineralogy – Analyze Martian soil samples
- Features of the Sun – Explore the Sun
- Goldilocks and the Three Planets – What makes a planet’s temperature just right for life?
- Explore Saturn and Titan with Spectral Data – Discover what Saturn’s rings and Titan’s atmosphere are made of
- Star Light, Star Bright – Explore stellar occultation events
- Planet Designer Kelvin Climb – Explore planetary surface temperature (for high schoolers)
- Planet Designer: What’s Trending Hot? – Explore planetary surface temperature (for middle schoolers)
- Planet Designer: Retro Planet Red – Can you modify Mars to support liquid water? (for high schoolers)
- Planet Designer: Martian Makeover – Can you modify Mars to support liquid water? (for middle schoolers)
- The Polar Vortex – Discover the process that destroys ozone over the south pole
Screenshots
Download the Project SPECTRA! app
Visit the “Project Spectra!” home page to download accompanying materials for some of the lessons.
Accessibility information
The downloadable versions of the app are keyboard accessible.
For visually impaired users: screen reader functionality is available for the Windows version of this interactive lesson when using JAWS screen-reading software.
Science at 100,000 Feet
Learn about the Earth’s atmosphere by building a high altitude balloon experiment!
Screenshots
Download the Science at 100,000 Feet app
Accessibility information
The downloadable versions of the app are keyboard accessible.
For visually impaired users: screen reader functionality is available for the Windows version of this interactive lesson when using JAWS screen-reading software.
The Outer Planets
| The Orbit Simulator lets you follow the motion of the planets and other interplanetary objects around the Sun.  | Use the Solar Wind Tunnel interactive to explore how the sun affects magnetic fields, comets, and other orbiting bodies.
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Visit the Outer Planets home page.