Free Lesson Plans

LP1 – Moons of the Solar System
LP1 R1 The Moon: motion
LP1 R2 The Moon: physical properties
LP1 R3 The Moon: appearance
LP2: Planets
LP2 R1 Pictures for ‘Find a Planet Game’
LP2 R2 Alien Space Journey Story
LP3. Motion of the Earth and planets in the Solar System
LP3 R1: Instructions for the “Solar System” demonstration

Free Lesson Plans about Space with our Mobile Planetarium visit

 

Free Lesson Plans for teachers who are looking for additional resources to complement our inflatable planetarium. We have developed lesson plans to cater for a range of year groups/ages. For example, Moon Of The Solar System provides an is a suitable resource to follow up our mobile planetarium visit where Y 4,5 or 6 learners were introduced to the solar system. The resource offers ideas for developing a further in-depth understanding of the Moon as a celestial object and its relation to Earth. For the younger audience lesson plan Planets allows embedding the knowledge gained in our presenter-led space mobile planetarium session.

To enhance space relate topic before or after mobile planetarium visit you can also look through a compilation list of web-pages where more resources can be found. BBC Education offers space knowledge material relevant to the British school curriculum. Other websites, such as for example Principia and UK Space Agency contain a number of visual resources and a more even specific information. Aside from incredible visual resources, NASA’s official website contains some great education resources, many of which are printable.  If you want your learners to know about the Russian space news ROSCOSMOS website offers information to expand the knowledge gained during our presenter-led mobile planetarium sessions.

Useful Space Websites Before or After Mobile Planetarium Sessions

 

NASA in mobile planetarium

www.nasa.gov -The official NASA website

www.esa.int/ESA – European Space Agency

www.bbc.co.uk – BBC science of space

Roscosmos in Mobile Planetarium www.bbc.co.uk/educationKS3 Physics space topic

www.bbc.co.uk/education – BBC KS2 Space education resources

www.bbc.co.uk/education – BBC KS1 Earth and Space resources

www.gov.uk – UK Space Agency

https://principia.org.uk – Tim Peaks Journey to the ISS

www.kidsastronomy.com – Videos and games about the solar system

www.universetoday.com – Up to date news on astronomy

www.space.com – Great site on space exploration

ESA Mobile planetarium

http://en.roscosmos.ru – ROSCOSMOS is a Russian Space State Corporation

www.skyandtelescope.com – Full information guide to astronomy

space-facts.comSpace facts out of this world