Educational resources

What materials to build your home on the Moon?

Brief description: When you think of building, you probably think of bricks – but Moon...

What is the best place to live on the Moon?

Brief description: An entirely new landscape awaits when you land on the Moon. Will you...

What experiments can you do on the Moon?

Brief description: The aim of the Moon mission is to research how to live on...

Water on the Moon – Filtering lunar ice cores to extract water

Brief description: In this resource, pupils will spend a day recording approximately how much water...

Water on the Moon

Brief description: Since the Moon is as dry as Earth’s driest desert, we’ll have to...

Waste management on the Moon

Brief description: One Earthling’s trash is another astronaut’s treasure. We can turn waste products into...

Traveling on the Moon

Brief description: How best to travel on the moon with rocks, boulders and craters in...

Tinkercad Lessons: Example Designs

Do you want to learn how to design a rocket? How about a moon habitat?...

The past and future of lunar exploration

Brief description: Al Worden, Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 15 mission talks about the...

Tell-tale signs of a shooting star – Comets, meteors and craters in the Solar System

Brief description: To many ancient civilisations, the tale of a shooting star was an omen...

Spacecraft Materials Kit

Brief description:  Pupils can use the ESA Spacecraft Materials Kit to experimentally investigate a variety of...

Space Bears – Lab-experience with Tardigrades

Brief description: In this set of experimental activities, students will investigate the survival abilities of...

Robots on the Moon

Brief description: Getting stuff done on the Moon requires more effort than what the first...

Robotic Arm – Become a space engineer for a day

Brief description: In this activity, students will learn how their arm works and build a...

Resources on the Moon

Brief description: It’s common knowledge that the Moon is a cratered ball of rock. Stunning...

Radiation on the Moon. How much sunscreen do you need on the Moon?

Brief description: Just one year on the moon maxes out the amount of solar radiation...

Preparing for lunar exploration: Frank De Winne

Brief description: ESA Astronaut and Head of the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Frank De...

Preparing for a lunar spacewalk

Brief description: Developing the safest and most efficient way to return to the Moon starts...

Powering the Moon

Brief description: A lunar day lasts for 14 Earth days, but night can be just...

Power from Water – How to produce oxygen and hydrogen on the Moon

Brief description: In this set of three activities, students will learn about electrochemistry. In the...

Power from Sunlight – Powering space exploration with solar energy

Brief description: In this set of activities, students will learn about two concepts that influence...

Paxi on the ISS – Natural and artificial satellites

Paxi Explores The Moon

Brief description: Join Paxi as he explores the Moon. In this video, targeted at children...

Paxi And Our Moon Phases And Eclipses

Brief description Join Paxi as he explores the Moon. In this video, targeted at children...

Orion ESM – The European Service Module

Brief description: What does it take to send astronauts into space? Learn how the European...

Online Course: Designing for 3D Printing

Are you interested in learning more about using Tinkercad to design specifically for 3D printing?...

Moon Shelter – Investigating different shelters on Earth and in space

Brief description: In this set of activities, pupils will analyse the importance of having shelter...

Moon Rover – Building a solar powered rover

Brief description: In this activity, students will compare the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy...

Moon Constitution – How would a future lunar community be organised?

Brief description: In this resource, pupils will debate some organisational and social characteristics of a...

Moon Camp Tinkercad Tutorials

Do you want to learn how to create astronaut quarters using Tinkercad? How about a...

Mission on the Moon – Program a classmate to complete a mission on the Moon

Brief description: This activity will introduce students to logical thinking by planning, testing and executing...

Meteors on the Moon. Sunny with a chance of meteor shower

Brief description: About 180 craters appear on the Moon every year, not to mention being...

Local lunar sights

Brief description: Learn more about the local lunar sights! Top tips for an unforgettable Moon...

Living on the Moon

Brief description: The Apollo Mission proved humans can work on the lunar surface but the...

Launching Into Space. Bye Earth, Hello Moon!

Brief description: How exactly does a rocket engine work? Learn about different factors that affect...

Landing on the moon – Planning and designing a lunar lander

Brief description: In this set of activities, students will plan, design and build a landing...

Landing on the Moon

Brief description: A manned spacecraft needs a soft landing, but it’s all in the timing....

ISS Commander’s Log with Andreas Mogensen

ISS Commander’s Log with Andreas Mogensen The ISS is a laboratory, where we can conduct...

Introduction to Tinkercad

Do you want to learn how to create 3D designs using Tinkercad? Use these resources...

Introduction to Fusion 360

Do you want to learn how to create 3D designs using Fusion 360? Use these...

Instructables: Design in Tinkercad

Do you want to learn how to 3D design a lunar lander? How about a...

Instructables: Design in Fusion 360

Do you want to learn how to 3D design a lunar lander? How about a...

How To Fly In Space? Slingshot To The Moon!

Brief description: Flying to the moon is tricky business, especially since you can’t just head...

How to communicate on the Moon?

Brief description: Even daily communication changes when living on the Moon. Without air to carry...

Future Moon exploration

Brief description: Though it has been fifty years since humans first stepped on the Moon,...

Food on the Moon

Brief description: There are only so many groceries you can bring to the Moon, so...

Extracting Water from Lunar Soil – Learning about filtration and distillation

Brief description: In this resource, students will learn about changes of state of matter using...

ESA Lunar Exploration

Create your own journey through this ESA web-documentary to learn the history of lunar exploration....

Destination: Moon

Brief description: This film gives an overview of the past, present, and future of Moon...

Design a Moon Habitat in Fusion 360

Do you want to learn how to design a Moon Habitat using Fusion 360? Watch...

Could life survive in alien environments? – Defining environments suitable for life

Brief description: In this activity, students will consider whether life found in extreme environments on...

Building your own Moon home

Brief description: The first Moon structure has a lot of roles to fill: a home...

Bionic Hand – Building a bionic hand

Brief description: In this activity, pupils will build a bionic hand made out of cardboard,...

AstroFood – Learning about edible plants in Space

Brief description: In this set of activities, students will learn about the different components of...

AstroFarmer – Learning about conditions for plant growth

Brief description: In this set of six activities, students will investigate which factors affect plant...

AstroCrops – Growing plants for future space missions

Brief description: In this set of activities, students will build an understanding of germination and...

Air on the Moon

Brief description: Holding our breath isn’t an option on the Moon, we need sources of...

3D-printing a lunar base

Brief description: Could astronauts one day be printing rather than building a base on the...

3D Printing on the Moon

Brief description: We can 3D print just about anything these days, from tools and buildings...

3D Printing Materials Guide for Classrooms

A helpful guide for understanding and choosing the best material to use when 3D printing....