Resources by Spacelink Learning Foundation
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Biosphere
This resource contains activities based around the concept of astronauts living in space. It is intended that students try out all the activities before producing a specification for their biosphere.
*Breathing: this activity describes how one can use simple equipment to measure the volume of air breathed at...
Life on Mars
This resource comprises of the following activities: *Geodesic domes: In this activity, students build a geodesic dome, suitable for a moonbase. *Choosing the site: students must research information about different possible sites for a moonbase and use the habitat requirements sheets to decide which site is most...
Little Green Men
This resource was funded by the Spacelink Learning Foundation and written by Sheffield Hallam University. It is aimed at students between 14 and 16 years of age. The resource investigates the idea of alien life, and consists of eight exercise sheets for students:
*Earth Calling looks at messages that have...
Mission to Mars
This resource was funded by the Spacelink Learning Foundation and written by Sheffield Hallam University. It is aimed at students between 11 and 14 years of age. The resource is based around the Beagle 2 mission to Mars. The students have five main tasks: • Work in a team to prepare a short drama about the plight...
Moonbase Beta
This resource is themed around building a moonbase. Students are given roles as technology, science or mathematics experts. Their tasks are to develop a detailed specification for the moonbase, to build a scale model, to review the suitability of its design once complete, to test the thermal conductivity and...
Off the Planet
This resource consists of four activities including: *Escaping the Earth: this worksheet looks at mass ratios associated with rocket launches. Students must work with fractions and plot scatter graphs to find a correlation between takeoff mass and final mass. *Microrockets: students build drinking-straw rockets and...
The Spacelink Learning Foundation is a UK Registered Charity dedicated to the use of space to improve education in secondary schools. The Foundation’s Education Policy is to encourage the maximum number of schools and other groups throughout the world to gain experience of, and benefit from, the use of space-...
The Best of the Best
This resource consists of the following activities: *A happy crew?: students must decide what attributes are needed for a good mission crew. *Fit for space?: this activity looks at pulse rates. Students must prepare a presentation on how a fitness test could be used to screen applicants to the astronaut programme...
The Big Picture
In the student activities booklet, students investigate the scale of the solar system in different ways: diameters of planets, distances between them and scaled masses. The Drake equation is an equation that can be used to estimate the number of civilisations in the Milky Way galaxy. The spreadsheet gives a range...
The Next Giant Leap
This resource comprises of six activities which include: *Electrodes and electrolytes: students must plan an investigation into which combinations of electrodes and electrolytes will provide electricity. *Investigation solar panels: students need to plan an investigation into three factors that they think may...
