🌎🚀 3-Day Summer STEM Expedition Camp

Earth to Moon Mission

Embark on an unforgettable three-day STEM adventure inspired by NASA's journey from Earth to the Moon! Designed for students in Grades 3–6, the Curious Minds Explorers Earth to Moon Mission STEM Camp takes young explorers through the exciting stages of planning, preparing for, and completing a lunar mission.

Through storytelling, inquiry-based investigations, engineering design challenges, and teamwork, campers will discover how scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and astronauts work together to make space exploration possible.

🌕 Launch an Epic Mission

Every successful mission begins with curiosity, careful planning, and teamwork. Throughout this three-day expedition, campers will investigate Earth, prepare for life in space, and tackle the challenges of landing and working safely on the Moon—all while thinking like real NASA scientists and engineers.

🚀 Inside the Camp

• ☀️ Investigate UV light, sunlight, rainbows, clouds, weather, and Earth observation

• 🛰️ Discover how satellites help scientists study Earth

• ✈️ Design, build, test, and improve paper airplanes, straw rockets, balloon rockets, and Moon landers

• 🌍 Compare Earth and the Moon using scale models and distance investigations

• 👨‍🚀 Plan Moon survival supplies and design astronaut space suits

• 💧 Explore water on the Moon and build a simple water filtration system

• 🎨 Create an authentic mission patch and celebrate a successful Moon mission

• 📖 Complete a STEM Explorer Journal with observations, data, and reflections

Throughout the camp, students ask questions, collect evidence, test prototypes, improve their designs, and communicate discoveries—just like the teams who support NASA missions.

📅 Mission Timeline

🌍 Day 1 — Earth Explorers

Discover our amazing planet through investigations of sunlight, weather, satellites, clouds, and flight while learning how Earth supports life.

🚀 Day 2 — Preparing for the Moon

Compare Earth and the Moon, calculate distances, pack for a lunar mission, design astronaut space suits, and launch straw rockets as you prepare for liftoff.

🌕 Day 3 — Journey to the Moon

Build and test Moon landers, investigate water filtration, explore thermal protection, complete engineering challenges, and celebrate your mission with a custom-designed mission patch and certificate.

❤️ Why You'll Love It

This three-day camp combines Earth science, engineering, space exploration, and problem-solving into one exciting learning experience. Children strengthen observation, creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking skills while experiencing the complete engineering design process—from asking questions and testing ideas to improving designs and celebrating success.

⭐ At a Glance

• Connects reading, Earth science, engineering, and space exploration through engaging STEM activities

• Guides campers from Earth exploration to a simulated Moon mission

• Encourages curiosity, collaboration, creativity, and engineering design

• Builds confidence through designing, testing, improving, and problem-solving

• Ready-to-use with affordable materials and easy-to-follow lesson plans

• Perfect for home, classrooms, libraries, camps, and community organizations

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Perfect For

Families • Homeschool Communities • Schools • Libraries • Museums • Churches • STEM Camps • After-School Programs • Community Organizations • Summer Learning Programs

📚 Featured Books

This STEM camp pairs perfectly with:

• 🚀 Blast Off with Dadiso: Science, Secrets, and Surprises on the Moon

• 🌙 Zora and Lily's Moon Adventure

• 🌍 Nouria Learns Why NASA Studies the Earth

• ✈️ Colin and the Quest for Quiet Speed: From Takeoff to Supersonic

• 🔬 The Science Scoop: Busting Myths About Science

🌟 Featured Book Spotlight

🚀 Blast Off with Dadiso: Science, Secrets, and Surprises on the Moon

Join Dadiso on an exciting journey to the Moon as you discover the science behind rockets, astronauts, lunar exploration, and NASA's Artemis missions. The story introduces many of the same concepts campers will investigate through hands-on engineering challenges, Moon landing activities, and space exploration experiments.

🌙 Zora and Lily's Moon Adventure

Travel with Zora and Lily as they imagine what it would be like to visit the Moon. Their adventure encourages curiosity about lunar science, astronauts, and exploration, making it the perfect companion to the camp's Moon survival, Moon lander, and mission design activities.

🚀 Ready to Explore?

Three Days. One Mission. Endless Discovery.

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