ISE 5-14 Curriculum Support Materials                                                           Overview advice

Group 18 exemplar Earth & Space  - Space & the Solar System - Earth Scale Diagram   Relay for Space  Scaled Sizes of Planets    Galactic Game Cards    Galactic Game Cards    Space & the Solar System (Word)

National Museums of Scotland - Blast Off! explores space travel and technology. A Black Knight British Government research rocket dominates the space and pupils can step into a space suit, fire a hydrogen rocket and get up close to a Gemini space capsule.

National Museums of Scotland - Robots - From the world's first artificially intelligent robot to designing your own. Control our robots as they spell your name, or explore an alien planet. Find out how robots are developing and what they might do for us in the future.

Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive - NASA

Engineering INTERACT - Excellent module called the Sun - forms part of a Flash investigation called Astro adventure - see also module questions and Space materials (Make sure your speakers are ON!)
See also the module called the Moon - forms part of a Flash investigation called Astro adventure - see also module questions and Satellites (Make sure your speakers are ON!)

A relay game for Space & the Solar System

One of the last photos taken by the Space Shuttle Columbia - PowerPoint Slide Show

The following sites may be useful for other lessons throughout this unit on the Solar System :-
Space Images Archive   Whoosh about the Planets  
ScienceWeb - Earth, Sun & Moon  (site access now costs £20/year)
Newton's Apple - Hubble Telescope     Newton's Apple - Kids on Mars
Newton's Apple - Meteors     Newton's Apple - Solar Eclipse
University of Leicester - Guide to Space & Astronomy
NASA Starchild - Learning Centre for Young Astronomers
NASA Kids - The Solar System   NASA Spacelink Lithograph Set  - Great poster-type info
NASA Kids - Art Galleries    Solar System Puzzle Kit - simple & useful activity pdf file for the planets  
NASA Multimedia Gallery
Use search engine to download information. Labels/ texts for charts; Creating and presenting - CP-D2.1 - ICT
Scottish Space Foundation
Astronomy Picture of the Day with explanation      Cocoa craters

NASA - Astromaterials Curation - Top Ten Scientific Discoveries Made During Apollo Exploration of the Moon

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Discovery is NEAR

Spotlight Science - 15f
Starting Science - GF-11.2.1, GF-11.2.2