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Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
IET Football on the Moon activities
This series of resources use the theme of football on the Moon to allow students to develop their knowledge and skills in science, design thinking and engineering. Resource activities are available for both primary and secondary level:
Primary level activities
- Create a foldable football goal
- Design a robot to draw lines on a football pitch
- Design an astronauts' menu
- Make a terrarium to grow grass on the Moon
Secondary level activities
- Build a communication system for the Moon
- Sketch your own football pitch
- Design a football robot referee
- Design a jet pack for playing football on the Moon
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Create a foldable football goal
In this activity pupils design and make a model of a foldable goal for use on the Moon, as part of a lunar league football game. They will consider the issues with playing football on the Moon and how to transport equipment to it, with the aim to design and make a model of a goal that could be folded into a tube...
Design a robot to draw lines on a football pitch
In this activity pupils will design a robot that can mark the pitch lines for a game of football on the Moon. They will produce a labelled sketch of their idea before writing a microcontroller program using the Crumble system.
This activity could be used to teach about designing electronic products and...
Design an astronauts' menu
This resource allows pupils to design a menu that is suitable for astronauts. They will experiment with different types of food and test their suitability for space travel. They will then create a menu that includes breakfast, lunch and dinner for space travellers.
This activity could be used as a main...
Make a terrarium to grow grass on the Moon
In this activity pupils will make use of the theme of football on the Moon to make an experiment of terrarium, so that grass can be grown for a lunar football game. This theme can be used to support discussion around the engineering challenges for travelling and potentially living on the Moon, such as how will we...
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| Subject(s) | Design and technology, Electronics, programming and control, Engineering |
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| Age | 7-11, 11-14, 14-16 |
| Published | 2020 to date |
| Published by | 
Submitted by Jenny Toft-Eriksen on
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cxj3nw |
