Question Guidelines
A few important reminders:
- Ask An Earth and Space Scientist only answers questions for school age children grades K-12 and Instructors of students grades K-12. Parents are also welcome to facilitate question submissions for their children.
- We do not have the resources to answer homework and school assignment questions.
- Any basic question that can be answered with current Internet reference sites are not answered. We are working on compiling a list of reference sites to help with these questions.
- We try to return an answer in 72 hours, however there are times when our volume of question submissions prevent our volunteers from responding in that time period. We ask that you be patient if there is a delay. If you don't hear from us, please feel free to resend your question a few days later.
- If teachers are looking to have students send in questions as part of an activity, please have your class pick the top three questions to send in.
- During high demand times, our volunteers may not be able to answer multiple questions for the same student. We also cannot provide long term mentoring so please choose your question with care.
- Finally, please remember that all the scientists that participate in Ask An Earth and Space Scientist are volunteers. They are also working scientists that sometimes cannot respond due to other demands on their time.