From videos to ready-to implement classroom activities, we’re here to help you get your learners excited about air and space.

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Flights of Fancy Story Time: The Sun’s Star Friends In this story; the Sun visits their star friends that can be found in our neighborhood of the Milky Way. https://youtu.be/QAKCcYAdAxg Grade PK, Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3 Science, Astronomy, Stars, Sun

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Flights of Fancy Story Time: Three Friends and Mo Spacewalk In this story the characters' pretend visit to the International Space Station! https://youtu.be/qv7E2839ElU Grade PK, Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3 Human spaceflight, Science, Spaceflight, Space stations, Technology and Engineering

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Flights of Fancy Story Time: Mo the Mars Man This story celebrates the upcoming landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars. https://youtu.be/tfZBkK5Y8ps Grade PK, Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3 Science, Solar System, Spaceflight, Spacecraft, Technology and Engineering

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Flights of Fancy Story Time: Building Our Home Among the Stars This story follows the Three Friends as they celebrate the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station and build their own space station. https://youtu.be/0G7okZ4F-C4 Grade PK, Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3 Astronomy, Human spaceflight, Science, Spaceflight, Space stations

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Flights of Fancy Story Time: Halloween Edition Gather your little ones for a special Halloween-themed story time with the National Air and Space Museum. Museum educator Ann Caspari reads an original story and leads us in a craft. https://youtu.be/Q-NXtwox4uo Grade PK, Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2 Life sciences, Science, Spaceflight

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Flights of Fancy Story Time: Family of the Sun Family of the Sun; which tells the story of the planets in our solar system. After the story; do a craft to make a solar system playset. https://youtu.be/HuOJNeYG6jk Grade PK, Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3 Astronomy, Aviation, Solar System, Spaceflight, Uncrewed spaceflight

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E.Z. Science: Launching to Mars with NASA's Perseverance Rover In the latest episode of #EZScience, learn about the upcoming launch of Perseverance. Dr. E and Dr. Z talk about the technological advancements of the newest Mars rover (and helicopter!). https://youtu.be/1P-QBtEyDbQ Grade 4, Grade 3, Grade 6, Grade 5, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 10, Grade 9, Grade 11, Grade 12 Spacecraft, Uncrewed spaceflight, Technology and Engineering

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E.Z. Science: Your Space Science Questions Answered! Watch the seventh episode of our #EZScience series to hear answers to your questions about planetary and space science. https://youtu.be/cS27PGmMFKg Grade 3, Grade 5, Grade 4, Grade 7, Grade 6, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12 Science, Solar System, Stars, Dwarf planets, Astronomy

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E.Z. Science: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope – Our Window to the Stars Watch the sixth episode of our #EZScience series to learn about the 30th anniversary of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. https://youtu.be/Zg4Jmcb485g Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12 Telescopes, Technology and Engineering, Solar System, Spaceflight

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Flights of Fancy Story Time: Clean Up This Space The friends are inspired while cleaning their rooms to return to their fantasy space story and imagine how their robot and alien characters could clean up space junk. https://youtu.be/k5v34wX84r8 Grade PK, Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2 Astronomy, Robotics, Science fiction, Spaceflight, Technology and Engineering

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Flights of Fancy Story Time: Asteroids; Meteors; and Comets The solar system has smaller objects like asteroids; meteors and comets that make a big impact. In this story we learn more about these small but interesting objects. https://youtu.be/r5h32sapkTM Grade PK, Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3 Astronomy, Science, Spaceflight

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E.Z. Science: Exploring the X-ray Universe By studying X–rays in deep space, we can learn about some of the most violent and extreme objects in the universe, such as black holes and the remains of stars that have exploded https://youtu.be/tBbdtV53OSc Grade 3, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 4, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12 Dwarf planets, Exoplanets, Solar System, Stars, Sun, Telescopes, Spaceflight

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