JPL Education

JPL Education is NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory portal for bringing real space exploration into classrooms and homeschools. It offers lesson plans, build-it-yourself activities, and multimedia resources tied to actual missions studying Mars, asteroids, and the outer planets. Created by the team that designs and flies many of NASA’s robotic explorers, it helps kids see how math and science show up in real engineering problems. Parents like the mix of approachable projects and awe-inspiring images and videos, and the way activities are labeled by grade and time required. Since everything is freely available, JPL Education is a budget-friendly way to anchor a space or engineering unit in real-world science.