Spaceship materials kit

 

What materials are needed to build spaceships, and what are their properties? Explore this question with your students! We’d be happy to lend you the kit – just drop us a line: contact@esero.lu

The ESA Spacecraft Materials Kit for elementary school is a useful resource that can be used by pupils to test a range of space-themed materials. Using a set of 9 different materials, they can carry out experiments to find out what properties are required to create a spaceship such as the Orion spacecraft.

Classroom demonstration video

Spaceship kit – the challenge

 

 

 

Ressources

Subjects:	Technology, Science, Design
Level:	Basic education
Duration:	2 hours
Cost:	10€

 

 

Documents for teachers

 

 

Documents for students

 

 

Pedagogical objectives

• Materials are grouped and compared according to their properties: strength, magnetism, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity and mass.

Students will improve various skills

• Plan experiments and understand how to use different variables to answer questions.
• Precise measurements with scientific equipment
• Repeat steps if necessary
• Record and communicate data and results in a scientific manner
• Present experimental results in oral and written form

Classroom demonstration video

Spaceship kit – the challenge

Ressources

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