3-2-1…Lift Off! Building a paper rocket
Building your own paper rocket
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Resources
Our incredible range of classroom resources have been carefully designed by ESA and Curious Minds to link in with the strands of the Science, Technology and Engineering curriculum. For more guidance when planning science teaching download the Curious Minds Planning Guide for Teachers.
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2025 Science Week Post-Primary Activity Pack
To support teachers and educators in bringing Science Week into busy classrooms and getting young people involved, we’ve put together...
2025 Science Week post-Primary Activity Pack (Gaeilge)
To support teachers and educators in bringing Science Week into busy classrooms and getting young people involved, we’ve put together...
After the Storm – Tracking Hurricane Matthew
Tracking Hurricane Matthew and analysing its impact
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Barycentric Balls
Orbits and the centre of mass
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Build your Mars Exploration Rover
Building and programming a LEGO rover to collect science data
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Classroom Resource Booklet: Space Weather Forecast
Space Week Resource Booklet
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Cloud Chamber
Radioactivity in a cosmic setting
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Cloud Chamber: Radioactivity in a cosmic setting
Cloud chambers are boxes specially made to detect charged particles and radiation. In this activity, a cloud chamber is used...
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Cooking a Comet
Ingredients for Life
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- Earth and Space
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Could Life Survive in Alien Environments?
Defining environments suitable for life
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Extracting Water from Lunar Soil
Learning about filtration and distillation
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Getting Started with Astro Pi
Using Raspberry Pi to understand programming language
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Hello, is this Planet Earth?
Programme a LEGO rover to communicate using light
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- Nature of Science
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Highways of the Ocean
Sea currents and the connection to climate
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How to Collect Data from Astro Pi
Collecting data from Astro Pi using the Sense HAT sensors
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Infrared Webcam Hack
Using infrared light to observe the world in a new way
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Landing on the Moon
Planning and designing a lunar lander
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Marble-ous Ellipses
Speed and time of orbiting bodies
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Meet the Sense Hat
Displaying text and images on the Sense HAT LED matrix
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Plants on Mars
Build an automatic plant watering system
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- Nature of Science
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Power from Sunlight
Powering space exploration with solar energy
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Power from sunlight: Powering space exploration with solar energy
In this set of activities, students will learn about two concepts that influence solar panel design for space missions: the...
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Power from Water
How to produce oxygen and hydrogen on the Moon
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