In these activities, pupils are introduced to the idea of controlled or uncontrolled re-entry for satellites. They are challenged to devise a way of reducing space debris by designing alterations to satellites so that they bring themselves back to Earth. In the first activity, the students pretend to be satellites...

Begin this activity by introducing the idea of playing football on the Moon and the potential problems that could be faced when doing this. Pupils will then sketch and label their design idea for a football kit that can be used to play football on the Moon. Pupils can self or peer-assess their design work...

In this activity students will design a kit for the first Moon-based football team. They will discuss the problems associated with playing football on the Moon, then will then sketch and label their design idea for a football kit that can be used to play football on the Moon. Students can self or peer-assess their...

This is one of a series of resources to support the use of the BBC micro:bit. This resource focusses on pupils designing, programming and using a BBC micro:bit to complete the mission challenge to find out more about the planet Mars.

In this activity pupils will make use of the BBC micro:bit to design and...