Category: Models & Materials

This image shows Psyche team members talking with members of the public at a the JPL Open House

August 25, 2019 / Models and Materials

Grades 6-8

Below is a list of activities, learning materials and videos for students in 6th through 8th grade. Click on each heading to view the full activity. Have fun exploring the NASA Psyche Mission!...
Undergraduate students displaying their protoype controlled by a laptop.

August 25, 2019 / Models and Materials

Grades 9-12

Below is a list of activities, learning materials and videos for students in 9th through 12th grade. Click on each heading to view the full activity. Have fun exploring the NASA Psyche Mission!...

August 22, 2019 / Models and Materials

Pom Pom

This activity is designed to engage younger minds in to the mission and get them excited about visiting a new metal world! Download Tutorial

This image shows a young child intently coloring in the Psyche badge.

August 22, 2019 / Psyche Inspired

Psyche For Kids

These two works are designed to engage younger students in the mission. The song, called “Beep, Boop, Beep, Boop Asteroid,” about finding Psyche, is set to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle,...
Approaching 16 Psyche music sheet.

January 26, 2019 / Psyche Inspired

Approaching 16 Psyche – Ryan Powell

This marching band tune about the Psyche spacecraft coming up upon the asteroid, captures the excitement and beauty of the final moments before it enters orbit around the Psyche asteroid. There...
this image is of our Psyche Inspired intern Ryan Powell who playing the piano and editing his music of his computer.

January 5, 2019 / Psyche Inspired

JOURNEY TO PSYCHE – A 3D EXPERIENCE – RYAN POWELL

This piece is a combination of music and the 3D sound aspect to tell a sort of story on the way to the asteroid that uses sound bites from previous NASA missions, showing how far we’ve come...
This is the cover of the Psyche Inspired book for the Titanium Class. It shows the title, an outline of the Psyche spacecraft, and an artistic scribble of oranges, reds, and yellows.

November 24, 2018 / Psyche Inspired

Psyche Inspired Titanium Class Book

Psyche Inspired was piloted at ASU during the 2017-2018 academic year. The artworks from the 2017-2018 Psyche Inspired interns, also known as Titanium Class, are displayed in a downloadable...
Along with the song is a lyric sheet. The lyric sheet is a one-page, horizontal sheet that contains the title "An Asteroid Named Psyche" in big bold letters at the top of the page. On either side of the title are two small graphics, both the same, of a circular cartoon asteroid in black and white. Underneath the title are the full lyrics, clumped into paragraphs for each separate verse and chorus. There is also a notated lead sheet which contains the notated melody with the chords written above the staff lines and the lyrics written below.

November 6, 2018 / Psyche Inspired

AN ASTEROID NAMED PSYCHE – Ryan Powell

An Asteroid Named Psyche is a children’s song that follows the asteroid’s story. The purpose of the song was to be both educational and exciting for kids; Therefore, Ryan brought...
This artist's conception shows a close-up of the heavily cratered surface of the Psyche asteroid.

June 25, 2018 / Models and Materials

Why Is Nasa Sending a Spacecraft to a Metal World?

View this TED-Ed video about the Psyche mission and check out the full lesson on the TED-Ed website.

Cover for the children's book "Psyche's Journey to a Metal World" showing the Earth, the spacecraft, and the asteroid on a starry background.

June 25, 2018 / Psyche Inspired

Psyche’s Journey to a Metal World

Psyche Inspired participants wrote and illustrated a coloring book about the Psyche mission from the perspective of the spacecraft. Read the book online Leer libro en español Download and print...
This image shows the Psyche zine folded up into an eight-page black and white miniature book.

June 25, 2018 / Psyche Inspired

Psyche Zine

Make and read a one-page ‘zine’ about Psyche, created by Megan Bromley of Psyche Inspired. Print out your zine and watch a video about how to fold it into a mini book: Psyche Zine Printout (PDF)

Large painted 3-D model of the Psyche Asteroid

June 25, 2018 / Models and Materials

Psyche Asteroid 3D Model

A couple of years in the making, this model of the Psyche Asteroid incorporates both the best shape model for the body that has been created using radar from Arecibo Observatory (Shepard+ 2017)...