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Middle School Level PASS Destinations

As students complete PASS units, they have the opportunity to visit “destinations” that provide fun and informative looks at various topics related to space exploration. Aside from the break students can enjoy after working hard at PASS, these destinations provide additional benefits to students as well.

  • Additional practice reading and comprehending text, including opportunities to build vocabulary

  • Research skills that come from pursuing the Web links built in to each PASS destination

  • Opportunities to learn more about our solar system and space beyond---

Now these same destinations are available to teachers for classroom use. To access the PASS middle school destinations, click on one of the links below. If you’d like to suggest additional PASS destinations or just share ideas for how to use these destinations in class, click here.

PLEASE NOTE! When selecting a destination, you must use your browser's "back" button to return to the teacher's lounge. The destination pages do NOT contain a "return" or "back" button.

Destination Topic

Destination Title

Curriculum Connections

Black Holes

Black holes

Science

Cape Canaveral

Cape Canaveral

Science, Social Studies

Chiron

The tenth planet?

Science, Language Arts, Social Studies

Columbia Space Shuttle

Around the world in less than two hours

Science

Comets

Comets: Snowballs in the night sky

Science

Constellations

Pictures in the sky

Science, Social Studies

Earth

Earth

Science

Eclipses

The Eclipse

Science

International Space Station NEW!

City in Space

Science

Jupiter

Jupiter

Science

International Dark Sky Association

Light Polution

Science

Mars

Mission to Mars

Science

Mercury

Mercury

Science

Milky Way

Milky Way

Science

Naming Stars

What's in a name?

Science

Nebulae

Outer Space Clouds

Science

Neptune

Neptune…our eighth, or is it ninth, planet!

Science, Math

Northern Lights NEW!

The greatest show on Earth?

Science

Pluto

A case of mistaken identity?

Science

Red Giants

Go Giants!

Science

Rocket Science NEW!

It does take a rocket scientist to figure this stuff out!

Science

Satellites

Satellites

Science, Social Studies

Saturn

Your rings are out of this world!

Science

SETI 

SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Science, Language Arts

Shooting Stars

Shooting stars

Science

Solar Flares

Solar flares

Science

Space Camp

Space camp

Science

Space Trash

Space trash

Science

Supernova

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Supernova!

Science

The Hubble Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope

Science

The Moon

Earth's Moon

Science, Math

The Sun

The sun

Science

The sun

The Star of our Solar System

Science

The Voyager Mission 

The Voyager Mission

Science

Uranus

A dramatic discovery

Science, Language Arts

Venus

As long as you're in the neighborhood…

Science

Weight on other planets

How much would you weigh on Jupiter?

Science, Math

White Dwarves

A Star with Just a Little Twinkle

Science