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Space stations, including Skylab, Mir and the ISS are a vital outposts of scientific endeavour. Although only the ISS remains in orbit, the story of man's quest to live and conduct experiments in space is a tale of adventure, tragedy and genius.
Six books that reveal the thrilling journeys, triumphs and...
Space Suit Science
This teaching resource is presented in four stages:
Stage One - Finding out about the problem. In stage one pupils find out more about spacesuits, how they work and why people need them to survive. They also find out more about the challenge to test a series of materials to...
Space to Earth Astronaut Training
Tim Peake is a European Space Agency astronaut. This resource gives background to Tim’s training leading up to his mission in 2015/16 to the International Space Station. Tim is shown in survival training, in the swimming pool training for microgravity, and in the centrifuge at the European Astronaut Centre to...
British ESA astronaut Tim Peake invites UK children to exercise alongside him as he trains two hours a day on the highest and fastest gym in the Universe – travelling at 27,600 km per hour and circling the world every 90 minutes. The triathlon styled challenge encourages schools to create their own ‘spaceathlons...
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest...
Space travel
This activity sheet is based on the Inventive Podcast. It introduces a spacecraft engineer Sian Cleaver, and links her work to a physics topic. The activity sheet also supports Careers Benchmark 4: Careers in the curriculum by introducing a career and role model. There are also links to short audio clips of Sian...
Space Weather Effects
This resource contains two activities and accompanying teachers’ notes.
Effect on a solar telescope
Using images from...
Space Weather Math
This series of activities from NASA take a mathematical approach to looking at space weather. They are intended as supplementary problems for students looking for additional challenges in mathematics and physical science from age 11 to 19 years.
The problems were created to be authentic glimpses of modern...
Space week STEM club package
These space-themed resources involve a range of activities suitable for STEM clubs, including:
- a cut-out paper model of the ADM-Aeolus Earth observation satellite
- a satellite design challenge from NASA
- instructions for creating a Galaxy themed mobile
- a how to guide for making...
'The Real Scientist' series puts the wow factor back into science - readers can investigate and experiment using everyday objects.