Resources by European Space Agency (ESA)
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This collection contains resources relating to the Solar System and Planets. There are a range of activities, images, video and information from sources such as the European Space Agency and NASA. There are a range of materials which can be used with primary or secondary students.
Space bears - Lab-experience with tardigrades
This resource from the European Space Agency is presented as four highly complex activities for more able and talented students. The activities require students to work with tardigrades ('water bears'), which they gather from collected moss or lichen samples. Students are given some outline guidance to come up...
Space Case - Borrow the spacecraft materials kit
Investigate properties of materials and decide which would be suitable for use on a spacecraft, in this resource aimed at upper primary children. A PowerPoint presentation, which includes an introduction from a space scientist, sets the real world context for their...
These inspirational resources introduce primary pupils to the concept of space debris and help raise their awareness of how important it is to clean up space.
Space rock-n-roll
In space, astronauts can perform spectacular rolls. On the International Space Station (ISS) astronauts seem to be floating.
In this activity, students will perform a series of somersaults on the ground to improve body coordination, flexibility, balance and strengthen their back, abdominal and leg muscles....
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...
Taking the pulse of the planet (11-14)
This resource from the European Space Agency climate change resource pack provides information gathered from the electromagnetic spectrum which is used to monitor and measure changes in the Earth’s climate system. Resources focus upon how satellite instruments orbiting the Earth detect data from the visible light,...
Taking the pulse of the planet (14-16)
These resources from the European Space Agency climate change initiative education resource pack allow students to learn about how data can be collected by sensors and how the orbit of satellites affect the details that can be obtained - Taking the Pulse of the Planet.
The first activity is text...
Taste in space
For astronauts, all their food and drink needs to be carried to the International Space Station (ISS). Eating is an important part of crew morale and the one communal time when they share both a meal and talk with each other. But from the early 1960s, astronauts found that their taste buds did not seem to be as...
Tell-tale signs of a shooting star: comets, meteors and craters in the solar system
In this activity, children learn that a shooting star or meteor is a piece of rock that lights up as it travels through the Earth’s atmosphere. They also work scientifically to investigate how craters are formed when a meteor...