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Motivate and engage your students with the interdisciplinary school projects run by the European Space Agency (ESA).
Ages: <11, 14-16, 11-14, 16-19;
This June, students from around Europe met in Portugal to compete in the European CanSat competition. One of their teachers tells us more.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
What we learnt from the first moon landing, and the curious questions that remain.
Ages: not applicable;
During an eclipse, the Sun or the Moon seems to disappear. What is happening? Why not explore this fascinating phenomenon in the classroom, with an easy to build model?
Ages: <11, 11-14;
Malcolm Fridlund from the European Space Agency (ESA) describes the search for extra-solar planets and explains how they can help us to understand the origin of life on Earth.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Where do astronauts get their food? What happens to their waste? Adam Williams from the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany, describes the development of an unmanned shuttle to supply the International Space Station.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
One hour and 34 minutes after the bright tail of the Kosmos 3M rocket disappeared from view, more than one hundred students are checking their watches nervously. The first signal from their satellite should arrive any minute. Barbara Warmbein, from the European Space Agency in Noordwijk, the…
Ages: 16-19;
Films about science or even pseudo-science can be powerful tools in the classroom. Heinz Oberhummer and Markus Behacker from the Cinema and Science project provide a toolkit for using the film Deep Impact.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
| Issue 54
Back to School with ESA
Topics: Astronomy / space, Sustainability, Science and society
| Issue 38
European CanSat Competition 2016
Topics: Inspire, Events
| Issue 36
Missions to the Moon
Topics: Resources
| Issue 23
Creating eclipses in the classroom
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
| Issue 13
The CoRoT satellite: the search for Earth-like planets
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy / space
| Issue 8
The Automated Transfer Vehicle – supporting Europe in space
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
| Issue 1
Launching a dream: the first European student satellite in orbit
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space, Engineering
| Issue 1
Deep Impact
Topics: Resources
