In this activity children learn about how the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to keep itself cold. They find out about the sunshield and how it works then explore how they can keep cold things cold, when...

Aimed at upper primary learners this resource provides a design and technology activity based on the challenges engineers and space scientists faced whilst working on the creation of the telescope. Children...

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.

The activities are:

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Mike is part of a space engineering company building a new series of very low mass foldable structures and antennas for satellites.  Oxford Space Systems are also working on constellations of satellites that will provide real time imaging from space. 

There are two cuts of the video – one aimed at primary...

In this practical investigation, students will perform a combustion reaction using a mixture of alcohol and air in a plastic water...

This resource has been developed to support the Mission X: Train Like An Astronaut challenge from the European Space Agency. 

It focuses on essential skills, such as listening, speaking, teamwork, problem solving, leadership, aiming high,...

This article focuses on how monitoring the movement of tectonic by satellites is allowing scientists to monitor the build-up...

The second edition of Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences gave a higher profile to the study of earth and space topics. These aspects of science dealt with three of the cross-curricular themes in the 1992 National Curriculum: weather, geology and space. These themes were related to two strands of the National Curriculum...

From the Nuffield Foundation, this collection consists of seven modules focusing directly on shape and space: angles, courses and bearings, symmetry, similarity, coordinates, topology, vectors and similarity 2.

Most modules consist of activity cards for students, hints for students for some of the cards and...

A collection of resources, from Nuffield Science, covering topics in space. 

In this activity children read and extract key facts about the different planets in our Solar System: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Using this information they write a planetary report...

The Science Processes and Concepts Exploration (SPACE) project research report on Evaporation and Condensation was published in 1990 by Liverpool University Press. The SPACE research was conducted at two centres: at the University of Liverpool and King’s College, London...

The Science Processes and Concepts Exploration (SPACE) project research report on Processes of Life was published in 1992 by Liverpool University Press. The SPACE research was conducted at two centres - the University of Liverpool and King’s College, London. Each centre took responsibility for research in...