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Know Your Planets

Play a game of card and learn about the Sun and planets.

DATE: 2016-03-08

BY: Space Awareness

Theme

Solar System

Age

4 - 10

Time

1h

Solar System model on a city map

Build a scale model of the Solar System on your city map

DATE: 2015-08-06

BY: Mayte Vasquez

Theme

Solar System

Age

12 - 16

Time

2h

Solar System model

Make a model of the Solar System planets using household materials.

DATE: 2015-08-06

BY: Syeda Lammim Ahad

Theme

Model of the Solar System

Age

4 - 10

Time

30min

The Engine of Life

A simple model experiment to understand what makes a planet habitable.

DATE: 2018-03-08

BY: Marco Türk

Theme

Habitable zone

Age

12 - 16

Time

1h

Children's Planetary Maps: Pluto & Charon

Learn about our furthest neighbors from planetary maps

DATE: 2017-08-10

BY: Henrik Hargitai; Mátyás Gede

Theme

Pluto

Age

6 - 14

Time

2h

Children's Planetary Maps: Titan

Learn from maps about the only other known body in the Solar System with seas and lakes

DATE: 2017-08-10

BY: Henrik Hargitai; Mátyás Gede

Theme

Titan

Age

6 - 12

Time

2h

Children's Planetary Maps: Io

Use maps to learn about the most geologically active world in our Solar System

DATE: 2017-08-09

BY: Henrik Hargitai; Mátyás Gede

Theme

Io

Age

6 - 14

Time

2h

Children's Planetary Maps: the Moon

An up close look at our own satellite using planetary maps!

DATE: 2017-08-09

BY: Henrik Hargitai; Mátyás Gede

Theme

Moon

Age

6 - 14

Time

2h

Children's Planetary Maps: Mars

Explore planet Mars, learning how to use planetary maps!

DATE: 2017-08-09

BY: Henrik Hargitai; Mátyás Gede

Theme

Planetary maps

Age

6 - 14

Time

2h

Children's Planetary Maps: Venus

Learn more about our nearest neighbour

DATE: 2017-08-09

BY: Henrik Hargitai; Mátyás Gede

Theme

Planetary maps

Age

6 - 14

Time

2h

Dark matter and Dark energy (Part 1) – Discovering the main components of the Universe

Lets' investigate gravity, dark matter and dark energy with some very simple experiments!

DATE: 2018-08-30

BY: Tran Dong Thai Han; Massimo Viola; Henk Hoekstra

Theme

Dark matter and enenergy

Age

12+

Time

45min

The 4-Point backyard diurnal parallax method

Measure the distance to an asteroid with a novel technique

DATE: 2017-07-27

BY: Eduardo Manuel Alvarez

Theme

Astrometry

Age

16+

Time

multiple days

Blue marble in empty Space

A virtual journey to space to learn that we live on a tiny planet, in a vast and empty space.

DATE: 2015-01-30

BY: Erik Arends

Theme

Scales and distances

Age

6 - 12

Time

30min

Age that crater!

Learn how to age craters with this Predict, Explain, Observe, Explain Activity!

DATE: 2022-08-03

BY: Amee Hennig

Theme

craters

Age

4 - 14

Time

1h

Evening Sky watching for students

Let's observe the evening sky with the naked eye

DATE: 2016-11-09

BY: Akihiko Tomita

Theme

Observation of evening sky

Age

4 - 8

Time

30min

Is the Sun rotating? Follow the sunspots!

Like a "modern" Galileo, use true astronomical satellite observations to discover if the Sun (and other celestial objects) are rotating!

DATE: 2021-04-20

BY: Philippe Kobel; Deborah Scherrer; María Dasí Espuig

Theme

Sunspots

Age

12 - 19

Time

1h

One million Earths inside our Sun

Learn how to build a model of the Sun...which can fit nearly 1 million little Earth balls!

DATE: 2021-03-04

BY: Natalie Fischer

Theme

Earth

Age

8 - 16

Time

30min

Creating Asteroids

Have fun, building asteroids using clay!

DATE: 2017-08-23

BY: Angela Perez; Tibisay Sankatsing Nava

Theme

Asteroids

Age

4 - 10

Time

1h 30m

AstroPoetry writing

Let's think about the night sky and write a poem related to astronomy!

DATE: 2015-04-07

BY: Christie McMonigal

Theme

Science and Art

Age

6 - 14

Time

1h 30m

Become a Geo-detective!

A hands-on introduction to how to read maps of other planets made by space missions.

DATE: 2023-04-29

BY: Henrik Hargitai; Livia Giacomini; Federica Duras

Theme

Planetary maps

Age

12 - 16

Time

2h

What is a black hole?

What are black holes and what would happen if the Sun was replaced by one of them?

DATE: 2018-08-29

BY: Tran Dong Thai Han; Thomas Russell

Theme

Black hole

Age

12 - 14

Time

45min

Dark matter & dark energy (Part 2) – Understanding the nature of dark matter and dark energy

Let's investigate the nature of dark matter and energy with gravitational lensing!

DATE: 2018-08-29

BY: Tran Dong Thai Han; Henk Hoekstra; Massimo Viola

Theme

dark matter and energy

Age

12+

Time

45min

Sun, Earth and Moon model

Build an Earth-Moon-Sun mobile to learn about how they orbit.

DATE: 2016-03-08

BY: Space Awareness

Theme

Model

Age

8 - 10

Time

1h 30m

Can you find the exoplanet?

Find the exoplanet and determine its size using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope!

DATE: 2023-11-13

BY: Roger Ferlet; Anne-Laure Melchior; Emmanuel Rollinde

Theme

exoplanet

Age

14 - 19

Time

3h

Big Telescopes: Gravity

Observing what gravity is doing to the Universe

DATE: 2018-02-03

BY: Jamie Sloan

Theme

telescopes and gravity

Age

12 - 16

Time

1h 30m

Meteoroids, Meteors and Meteorites

Unveiling the mystery of "shooting stars": meteors, meteorites and meteroids

DATE: 2017-08-25

BY: Ronan Smith; Christian Eistrup; Jorge Rivero González

Theme

meteoroids, meteors and meteorites

Age

6 - 14

Time

1h 30m

Moving constellations

Let's learn how stars in constellations move through time using real astronomical images.

DATE: 2023-05-23

BY: Giuseppe Bono; Roberto Buonanno; Elisa Di Carlo; Giuliano Giuffrida; Licia Troisi

Theme

constellations

Age

10+

Time

3h

Hunting for black holes

How do astronomers detect invisible black holes?

DATE: 2018-08-29

BY: Tran Dong Thai Han; Thomas Russell

Theme

Black hole

Age

12 - 14

Time

45min

Country movers – visualizing spatial scales in Planetary and Earth Science

Play with maps, moving your country to another planet!

DATE: 2017-08-25

BY: Henrik Hargitai; Mátyás Gede

Theme

Planetary maps

Age

12+

Time

2h

Star Hats

Make your star hat, learning about the stars

DATE: 2016-03-10

BY: Tibisay Sankatsing Nava

Theme

Stars

Age

4 - 6

Time

30min

Deadly Moons

Learn about moons of our solar system through art!

DATE: 2014-04-07

BY: Deirdre Kelleghan

Theme

Moons

Age

6 - 12

Time

1h

The gravity battle

Who will win in the epic battle between gravity and other forces?

DATE: 2024-04-05

BY: Biagio Ambrosio; Anastasiia Plotnikova; Anita Zanella

Theme

Gravity and other forces

Age

8 - 19

Time

1h

Make your own Sun!

Let's build a model of the Sun with plasticine and get to know our star!

DATE: 2022-07-07

BY: Carolina Escobar García; León Jaime Restrepo Quirós

Theme

Sun

Age

6 - 12

Time

1h 30m

Driving on Mars

An educational interdisciplinary game to drive a rover on Mars

DATE: 2022-04-14

BY: Davide Ricci; Elena Sissa; Francesca Damiani

Theme

Space exploration

Age

14 - 19

Time

2h

Measure the Sun's Rotation Period

Find out the Sun’s rotation period, applying the simple equation of average speed to a real astronomical case.

DATE: 2019-08-22

BY: Philippe Kobel; María Dasí Espuig; Deborah Scherrer

Theme

Sun rotation

Age

16 - 19

Time

1h 30m

Oceans as a heat reservoir

Why do oceans play an important role in mitigating global warming?

DATE: 2018-02-27

BY: Marco Türk

Theme

Atmosphere

Age

12 - 19

Time

1h 30m

Street Lights as Standard Candles

Understand astronomical distances using street lights

DATE: 2016-11-09

BY: Markus Pössel

Theme

Astronomical distances

Age

14+

Time

3h

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Build your own artificial satellite

Build a satellite to learn what they are made of and their uses.

DATE: 2016-03-10

BY: Vivienne Kolman

Theme

satellites

Age

8 - 10

Time

1h 30m

History of the Universe

Build a timeline of the all Universe!

DATE: 2016-03-08

BY: Space Awareness

Theme

Time

Age

8 - 14

Time

1h 30m

Living in the Milky Way

Build a model of the Milky Way to discover what our galaxy contains.

DATE: 2016-03-08

BY: Space Awareness

Theme

Milky way

Age

6 - 10

Time

1h 30m

Globe at Night Activity Guide

Measure light pollution observing the faintest visible stars!

DATE: 2014-03-26

BY: Amee Hennig

Theme

Light Pollution

Age

4+

Time

30min

Magnitude Readers: how light pollution affects the Stars

Build a Magnitude Reader to explore the visibility of stars

DATE: 2014-03-24

BY: Amee Hennig

Theme

Light Pollution

Age

10 - 19

Time

3-6h

Model of a Black Hole

Understand the mystery of black holes through a hands-on activity.

DATE: 2013-09-30

BY: Monica Turner

Theme

Black Hole

Age

8 - 12

Time

1h

Design your Alien

Design an alien life form, suited for an extra-terrestrial world.

DATE: 2013-09-30

BY: Sarah Roberts

Theme

Alien life

Age

8 - 12

Time

2h