Forces and motion
Personal Satellite Assistant
Interactive learning resource using NASA's Personal Satellite Assistant, allowing students to investigate forces and motion. The Personal Satellite Assistant (PSA) is a volleyball-sized robot that was prototyped in 2003-2004 to operate on a wide variety of spacecraft and could even go to Mars. The goal was to provide the astronauts with a robot assistant to help them with their daily tasks, monitor the environment on the space vehicle and to venture into situations that might be too dangerous for humans.
Rocket Mice Activity
In this activity you can make a paper mouse hit the ceiling using forces and the power of air? This is just one of the many classroom activities on the Science Museum website.
Drinking Straw Rocket
This simple activity from NASA allows classrooms to study rocket stability as students construct and fly small "indoor" paper rockets. The rockets can be used for a range of activities into forces and movement in which students collect data and interpret the results.
Forces and Motion in Space
Short video clips that illustrate aspects of movement in space. They allow students to see how objects move when apparently weightless.
