International Day of Human Space Flight - Secondary
The United Nations has designated 12th April as International Day of Human Space flight to celebrate the beginning of the space era for humankind. It was on this date in 1961 that Yuri Gagarin completed the first successful human space flight so beginning the exploration of space by people.
These resources for pupils aged 11 to 16 cover a range of topics from looking at:
- life and the experiments on the International Space Station
- how to design and build rockets and understand the benefits of different energy sources
- how plants could be grown on Mars
- how to generate oxygen by the electrolysis of water
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Power from sunlight - Powering space exploration with solar energy
In this set of activities from the European Space Agency, students learn about two concepts that influence solar panel design for space missions: the inverse square law and the angle of incidence. There are instructions on two simple investigations using a photovoltaic cell (solar cell) and a light source. The...
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| Subject(s) | Space |
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| Age | 11-14, 14-16 |
| Published | 2020 to date |
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cxhkru |
