Welcome to the Cosmic Portal!
Resources for educators to launch students to cosmic heights.
"Space Club curriculum is very well laid out & easy to use! WOW, there is so much wonderful information for the students to refer to & learn from! I absolutely plan to do Space Club again next year!!"
Michelle
Chimacum Elementary (WA)
"Space Club was the most well put together program I have ever used! It was really amazing to see how engaged students were and how much they learned. It also exposed them to careers they never knew existed."
Mary
Bloom Carroll Middle (OH)
Join for Free Today!
Our mission is to empower educators to provide transformative learning experiences for their students. We are excited to now offer membership completely free for all K-8 educators! The Cosmic Portal includes:
- K-8 semester STEM units to implement Space Club programming
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On-demand training videos
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Access to a private educator support group
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Career Chats with amazing STEM professionals
School Partners
Check out our over 500 school and program partners running Space Club around the world!
Cosmic Partners
We are proud to work with other amazing organizations who support our mission to provide a community of support to educators!
The teacher training portal includes everything you need to launch Space Club with your students successfully!
Currently available are 2 semester-long units: Mission to Moon and Mission to Mars.
The portal also includes 4-hour training modules and curriculum.
Curriculum includes:
- Mission to Moon and Mars teacher guide
- Launchpad: A K-3 version of Space Club to support younger students
- Editable digital and printed student handouts on Google Slides
- Mission Introduction videos
- STEM Instructional videos for each design challenge with science and real-world connections
Training modules include:
- Basics of STEM Education
- Planning of STEM sessions
- Explanation of every activity with student example
- Insight from past Space Club teachers
- Setting up and using digital tools including Google Slides, and Kahoot!
- Access to Space Club Educator group
Space Club is a flexible STEM curriculum that works great for an enrichment program or integrated into a science course or STEM elective. Space Club curriculum is intended for grades 4th - 8th. Training includes access to Launchpad a new version of Space Club for K - 3rd graders!
Reach our team at [email protected]
In 2014, an aerospace engineer left an industry job to join a nonprofit on a mission to keep kids in school. Working with Title I schools in San Antonio, she founded Space Club on the belief that the wonders of the night sky capture all kids.
Despite warnings that middle school kids don't go to science clubs, over 60 students packed inside a tiny portable for the first Space Club meeting. That first year, administrators watched in amazement as students launched rockets, designed a colony on Mars, and even deployed a weather balloon to 100,000 feet!
I can't believe we just launched a rocket! I never thought I was a STEM person, but now anything seems possible. – Space Club 7th grader in San Antonio, Texas
To sustain these efforts, a volunteer board of directors established the Cosmic Leap Foundation as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in March 2023. An experienced advisory board of Space Club educators and industry partners supports these efforts.
Space Club Supply Kits
Through a partnership with Pitsco Education, Space Club supply kits are now available for Mission to Moon and Mission to Mars units! Everything is included for a low-prep solution to easily bring STEM activities to your classroom!
