Impact Craters

Impact Craters

With this activity, stydents learn how craters are made from the impact of an asteroid hitting the Earth and the effects this can have. With a fun, simple, but quantitative experiment, they will learn how the crater size depends on the impactor mass and the impact...
Children’s Planetary Maps: the Moon

Children’s Planetary Maps: the Moon

Using planetary maps, students will be able to read cartographic information about the Moon and compare the environmental conditions of our satellite to those on Earth. They will understand the conditions needed for life to exist, and be able to explain why it cannot...
Driving on Mars

Driving on Mars

An educational, interdisciplinary game to drive a rover on Mars that underlines in a playful way the problems related to time-delay in communication in the exploration of the Solar System. With this simulation game, students will also understand the importance of...
Cubic Planets

Cubic Planets

Earth, the happy planet. Mars, the angry guy. Jupiter, the big glutton. Did you ever imagine to build the planets of the Solar System as cubic characters with their own, brilliant personalities? Tailored for individual or team work, this activity allows students to...
Children’s Planetary Maps: Io

Children’s Planetary Maps: Io

Using planetary maps, students will be able to read cartographic information and compare the environmental conditions of Jupiter’s moon Io to those Earth. They will understand the conditions needed for life to exist, and be able to explain why it cannot exist on...