Personal Development – Discovery Diaries

Astronaut Workout

Get ready for space with this 5-circuit exercise workout, combining maths with PE.

A 10-question 'true or false' quiz about what happens to the human body in space.

Students will plan and draw a space dinner using the Eatwell food plate as a guide for choosing healthy options.

This activity supports Space Dinner (Activity 0.3 of the Pre-launch Chapter).

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

Follow Tim's schedule on launch day! Learn about time and duration while completing a comic strip!

With the help of astronaut Richard Garriott, describing how it feels to launch into space for the first time.

Understanding how the Soyuz capsule gets from launch to the ISS is a complex concept.

Imagining they are astronauts, students will write a newspaper article about their first day in space.

The ISS is an extremely complex structure and at first glance it can be intimidating.

Get to know your new home! Draw a diagram of the ISS and colour-code the different parts.

Inspire research, discovery and writing using Tim Peake's incredible images of Earth from space.

Water is scarce on board the ISS and an intricate recycling systems allows astronauts to reuse every drop.

After completing the Solar System activity students can create their own imaginary space habitat.

Learn about the complicated and dangerous process of returning to Earth from the ISS.

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