Build your own artificial satellite

Build your own artificial satellite

By building a satellite using household materials, students learn about artificial satellites, their functions and importance to society. Resource Link Access the complete activity resource Activity Information Partner Organization: OAE Age Range: 8 – 10 years...
Make a Star Lantern

Make a Star Lantern

Students build a star lantern and by implementing this activity, they learn that people have created constellations. They learn that a constellation is composed of different stars and can recognise some of them. Resource Link Access the complete activity resource...
Create your own Astro-Music

Create your own Astro-Music

By performing original musical improvisations, students enhance their knowledge of what astronomical phenomena are represented in images and experiment with creative ways of representing these using music. This activity engages students in first hand exploration of...
Solar System model on a city map

Solar System model on a city map

The distances between Solar System bodies are great and planets are really tiny if compared to the Sun. In this hands-on activity students build a scale model of the Solar System on their city-map learning how a scale model is built. They will also be guided to...
The gravity battle

The gravity battle

In this hands-on activity, participants will experience the “tug-of-war” between gravity and other forces, namely: buoyant force, friction force, magnetic force and normal force. They will test how different types of materials float, and use an inclined...
How do telescopes work?

How do telescopes work?

Telescopes collect the light received from very dim and really far away celestial objects. Discover how they do this using very simple optics in a series of hands-on activities where we will guide light using objects like mirrors, lenses, lasers, glasses and bottles...