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Key Stage 1

Astronaut Workout

Astronaut Workout

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

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Your Body In Space

Your Body In Space

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

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Space Dinner

Space Dinner

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

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Eatwell Plates

Eatwell Plates

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

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Design Your Spacesuit

Design Your Spacesuit

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

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Investigating Materials

Investigating Materials

Children will investigate different materials while they research the best insulator for a spacesuit.

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Time for Launch

Time for Launch

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

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Build Your Own Soyuz

Build Your Own Soyuz

This extension activity supports Time for Launch - Activity 1.1 in Chapter One.

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8 Minutes to Space

8 Minutes to Space

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

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Fast-Track Rendezvous

Fast-Track Rendezvous

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

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United in Space

United in Space

It's time to find out about fellow astronauts and research the countries who have been to the ISS.

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Breaking News

Breaking News

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

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Create a News Report

Create a News Report

This extension activity supports Breaking News: Activity 2.2 in Chapter Two.

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Earth to Principia

Earth to Principia

Budding young coders and mathematicians will enjoy this challenging activity.

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Your New Home

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

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

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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Looking at the Earth from Space

Looking at the Earth from Space

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

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The Solar System

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

Create Your Own Solar System Model

This extension activity supports The Solar System: Activity 3.4.

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Space Gardening

Space Gardening

It's gardening time! Find out which foods are best to grow in space then design your garden.

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Space Gardener – Get Outside and Grow!

Space Gardener – Get Outside and Grow!

This extension activity supports Activity 4.1: Space Gardening.

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Make a Splash in Space

Make a Splash in Space

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

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Make Your Own Water Cycle

Make Your Own Water Cycle

This extension activity supports Make a Splash: Activity 4.2 in Chapter Four.

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Experimentally Yours

Experimentally Yours

Curiosity makes a great scientist! Design, draw and label an experiment to answer a scientific question.

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Experimentally Yours (Extension)

Experimentally Yours (Extension)

This extension activity supports Activity 4.3: Experimentally Yours.

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Making History

Making History

Where are you in space history? Learn about key events on our space timeline.

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Space Habitat

Space Habitat

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

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Robots in Space

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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Re-entry

Re-entry

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

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The Journey Home

The Journey Home

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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Egg Parachutes

Egg Parachutes

This extension activity supports The Journey Home: Activity 6.2 in Chapter Six.

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Send a Postcard to Space

Send a Postcard to Space

Write a postcard to the astronauts on the ISS and let them know you've made it back to Earth safely.

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