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Home » Activities » Principia Space Diary » Chapter Six: Mission Finale » Egg Parachutes

Egg Parachutes

Principia Space Diary

Activity 6.2

Extension Activity for The Journey Home

This extension activity supports The Journey Home: Activity 6.2 in Chapter Six. Challenge your future engineers! Can your students come up with a parachute design which keeps an egg from cracking when it lands? Provide them with a range of craft materials to see what they can create!

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Subjects

  • Maths / Numeracy
  • Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC)
  • Primary Science / Working Scientifically
  • Design and Technology (DT)

Learning Methods

  • Build
  • Thinking Skills
  • Research
  • Problem Solve
  • Design and Invent
Egg Parachutes

Support Materials

Links

  • The Journey Home
  • A clip of the Soyuz capsule landing

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Design Your Spacesuit

Activity 0.4

Design a spacesuit to keep yourself safe, either during mission launch or on a spacewalk.

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The Journey Home

The Journey Home

Activity 6.2

You're on your way back to Earth but where will you land and how will you get home from there?

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Return to Chapter:

Chapter Six: Mission Finale


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