This Catalyst article is about a group of school students in South Africa that are helping to develop a spacecraft that will monitor agricultural changes in their country.

This article is from Catalyst: Secondary Science Review 2016, Volume 27, Issue 4.

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This Catalyst article investigates materials that are used in space travel. It discovers that they must be designed and tested to ensure they will protect astronauts from radiation and the vacuum of space. 

The...

These resources use mathematics to teach about the theme of space. 

This teacher’s guide, provided by the Food Standards Agency, supports teachers to teach children about food safety.  This includes understanding food allergies, planning a balanced diet, and understanding food labels including traffic lights and best before dates.

This series of activities from NASA are based on a weekly series of space science problems distributed to teachers in the United States, from 2004 to 2010. They were intended for students aged 9 to 19 looking for additional challenges in the mathematics and physical science curriculum. The problems were created to...

The films in this collection cover aspects of space science, including telescopes, black holes, dark matter, the scale of the universe and light years.

For the g-forces activity pupils will be able to discuss how astronauts use forces to simulate the effect of launch and landing on their bodies, when preparing to go into space. The pupils look at the forces on a ball at the end of a piece of elastic and discuss the forces on an Astronaut in a centrifuge. For the...

This resource contains a number of ideas for both teaching about space and for using space as a context for learning in other subject areas.

They are:

• Poems - using different types of poems in science and some space poetry words.

• Songs and music - lists of songs concerning space and...

The Principia Space Diary aims to help children find out more about the Principia mission, to strengthen literacy and visual literacy skills and engage children in STEM learning. The diary is supported over the six months of Tim's mission by lesson plans released each month. The teaching notes produced so far...