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Paxi Explores the Moon
This short animation film joins Paxi as he explores the moon. Paxi travels back in time to the creation of the moon, before jumping forward to introduce humankind’s many missions to the moon. Finally Paxi discuss’ what humans would need to survive on the moon for extended periods of time. This video, produced by...
Paxi Explores Exoplanets
This short animation films joins Paxi as he explores exoplanets. Paxi explains what exoplanets are, how they are discovered and he explores the many different types of exoplanet. This video produced by the European Space Agency would be well placed at the start of a Key Stage 2 Science lesson to introduce new...
BepiColombo
This short animation film joins Bepi, as she prepares to embark on a space mission to Mercury. Bepi explores a range of scientific facts and gets pupils thinking about all the things we don’t know about mercury. This video would be well placed at the start of a lesson researching a planet like Mercury. This video...
The Water Cycle
This short animation film joins the alien, Paxi, as he investigates the water cycle. He explains how important water is to life on Earth and how it moves around the Earth. Paxi delves into the processes of evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection.
The Solar System - ESA video
This short animation film joins the alien, Paxi, as he explores the solar system. He enhances pupils understanding of the Solar system by visiting and discussing each planet in order, identifying asteroid belts and comets and exploring the Sun as an important star. He gives key important facts for each area...
The Greenhouse Effect
This short animation film joins the alien, Paxi, as he investigates the greenhouse effect and greenhouse gases and the effect they have on the Earth’s atmosphere. He explores how human activity, such as cars, factories, and food production have increased the amount of carbon dioxide trapped in the...
This collection of resources support learning about STEM subjects using the context of exploring Mars. Using the context of the ExoMars mission, activities link to areas of the curriculum including: science, design and technology, and computing. There are...
Martian Explorers: What are Space Robots?
This resource provides a series of lessons designed to help children understand the need for exploration robots and learn about how they work. The activities link mostly to D&T with a science context, though some of the activities are more focussed on learning in English.
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The Mars Mission: Building on Mars
This resource provides activities for children aged from 4-11,using the theme of building a settlement on Mars as the context. The activities are:
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The Mars Mission: Aliens!
In this activity children use the context of exploring Mars to investigate living things, habitats and electricity. The activities are:
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