Operation Space Station
Join our mission commander here at the National Space Centre and challenge your class to build, crew and equip their very own Space Station.
This highly interactive session will see your class work in teams to complete two different, but very related, challenges. Students will learn all about Space Stations, the history of them, and what it’s like to live aboard one, before getting assigned a mission brief to work too.
Using the information they have learnt, students will work under time constraints, and to a set budget to first build their own Space Station, which will be put to the test and scored. Followed by crewing and equipping their station to meet the mission objectives. Students will then present their decisions and again get scored, and finish by revealing the overall winner of the challenge.
Note: This session is suitable for a class with a maximum of 36 students
Running time: 75 minutes
Recommended: Years 5-7
Curriculum links:
- Working scientifically
- Animals, including humans
- Living things and their habitats
- Earth and space
- Nutrition
- Health
- Communication and Language
- Speaking and listening
- Numbers
- Materials
- Design
