Design Your Spacesuit
Design a spacesuit to keep yourself safe, either during mission launch or on a spacewalk.
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Build Your Own Soyuz
This extension activity supports Time for Launch - Activity 1.1 in Chapter One.
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Breaking News
Imagining they are astronauts, students will write a newspaper article about their first day in space.
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Your New Home
The ISS is an extremely complex structure and at first glance it can be intimidating.
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Build Your Own ISS
This extension activity supports Your New Home: Activity 3.1 in Chapter Three.
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Draw Your Own ISS
Get to know your new home! Draw a diagram of the ISS and colour-code the different parts.
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The Solar System
Explore the Solar System, learning about the weather and conditions on each one.
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Create Your Own Solar System Model
This extension activity supports The Solar System: Activity 3.4.
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Space Habitat
After completing the Solar System activity students can create their own imaginary space habitat.
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Robots in Space
Humans need robots to do some of the jobs that are too difficult, or too dangerous, for astronauts.
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Egg Parachutes
This extension activity supports The Journey Home: Activity 6.2 in Chapter Six.
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Design Your Own Rocket
In this creative, hands-on activity students will design their own Mars rocket.
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Weather on Mars
Students create their own infographic (or visual interpretation) of Mars weather data.
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Mighty Mons
Study images of Olympus Mons from space, and create an interpretation of how it would look from the ground.
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Design Your Mars Rover
Design a Mars rover to explore the Martian surface and collect samples to send back to Earth.
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Martian Mechanics
This activity asks students to create a machine to get their rock samples back to an astronaut on Mars.
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Space Lab
Designing an experiment to test a hypothesis is a fundamental part of scientific enquiry.
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Town Planner
Practice mapping and drawing skills and explore what makes a good city, society and community.
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Biodome Garden
Create a biodome to house food and plant crops that can sustain your Mars population.
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Energise Your City
Research energy sources then, design your own sustainable energy source to power your city on Mars.
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Protect Your City
How will you deal with the lack of oxygen, extreme weather and severe radiation on Mars?
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Lights, Mirror, Action
Design a demonstration to show that light travels in straight lines, reflects off things and casts shadows.
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Make-Your-Own Colour Wheel
Use your engineering skills to make a colour wheel that turns the spectrum into white.
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Recipe for a Rainbow
Experiment with prisms and light, devising a step-by-step guide on how to make a rainbow.
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Mega Mirror Engineer
Solve this engineering challenge by designing a mirror that meets the guidelines in your brief.
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Keep It Cool
Devise an experiment testing how to keep the infrared camera on your telescope super cool.
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Pack Your Payload
Design how to fold up your huge telescope, so it will fit into the rocket taking it to space.
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