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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Living on the Moon

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

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...

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...

Future Moon exploration

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

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...

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...

3D Printing with Moon Camp

Do you want to learn how to 3D print your very own Moon Camp? Or...