Solar System and Universe

ARCHIVE CONTENT 19 DEC. 2012 41902

Explore the Solar System from your classroom with inspiration from ESA’s missions to the Sun and Planets and enrich your astronomy lessons through imagery from space telescopes and cutting edge astrophysics data.

Cloud chamber - radioactivity in a cosmic setting | Teach with space P03

Subjects	physics, chemistry, astronomy
Language	English
Format	Teacher's guide and student activities (PDF) and videos

Barycentric balls - orbits and the centre of mass | Teach with space P07

Subjects	physics, mathematics, astronomy
Language	English
Format	Classroom activity and student worksheet (PDF) and videos

Cooking a comet - ingredients for life | Teach with space P06

Subjects	physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry
Language	English
Format	Teacher's guide and pupil activities (PDF) and video

Marble-ous ellipses - speed and time of orbiting bodies | Teach with space P02

Subjects	physics, mathematics
Language	English
Format	Teacher's guide and pupil activities (PDF) and video

Our Solar System – Journey to other celestial objects | Teach with space PR01

Subjects	science, spoken language, reading, writing, art and design
Language	English
Format	Teacher's guide and pupil activities (PDF)

Tell-tale signs of a shooting star – comets, meteors and craters in the Solar System | teach with space PR04

Subjects	Science, literacy
Language	English
Format	Teacher's guide and pupil activities (PDF) and Extension activties (PDF)

Science@ESA vodcasts

Subjects	astronomy, physics
Language	English
Format	vodcasts

Teacher Notes - science

Subjects	physics and astrophysics
Language	English
Format	web pages and downloadable booklets (PDF)

Classroom tools

Subjects	chemistry, physics, astrophysics
Languages	English
Format	PDFs, animations, images

Explore Saturn and Titan at school

Subjects	physics, chemistry
Languages	Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Nederlands, Norsk, Suomi, Svenska
Format	cartoon book and factsheets (online)

Herschel and Planck in the classroom

Subjects	mathematics & physics
Languages	Deutsch, English
Format	downloadable PDFs and videos

Little Books of Gaia

Subject	science
Languages	Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Magyar, Nederlands
Format	PDFs

Images from Mars Express

Subjects	physics, chemistry, geography
Languages	English, Français
Format	downloadable PDFs

Hubble astronomy exercises

Subjects	physics & chemistry, mathematics
Languages	Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands
Format	website with exercises in PDF

Mission to Brighton

Subjects	physics, chemistry, geography
Language	English
Format	website

ESA’s astrophysics missions in wavelength

Subjects	chemistry, physics, astrophysics
Languages	English
Format	online material

ESA missions exploring the Solar System

Subjects	chemistry, physics, astrophyiscs
Languages	English
Format	online material

Astronomy booklet

Subject	astronomy
Languages	English, Español, Français, Nederlands
Format	booklet in PDF

Astronomy and football

Subjects	physics, mathematics
Languages	Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands
Format	PDF

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