The education team here at the National Space Centre have been working with the European Space Agency (ESA) to produce a series of educational videos for secondary school pupils. The first 5 videos, feature the 5 scientists and visionaries after whom the Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATV) - ESAs cargo spaceships that resupplied the International Space Station - were named: Jules Vernes, Johannes Kepler, Edoardo Amaldi, Albert Einstein, and Georges Lemaître. About fifteen minutes long, these documentary-style videos are meant to be a source of inspiration about space, science and space travel. They combine modern science, human spaceflight and curricular subjects, and can be shown in the classroom as an engaging introduction to parts of the secondary level physics curriculum. Accompanying the ATV videos is a new series of classroom video resources called Teach with space, the first 7 videos show experiments that can be performed in the classroom and that demonstrate the application of basic curricular physics and chemistry topics to real-life space science and engineering, such as rocketry and orbits. Heres one of our favourite Teach with Space videos presented by our very own Anu Ojha: esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2014/07/Whoosh_bottle_-_classroom_demonstration_video_VP01 You can learn more on the ESAs Teachers corner webpage - look for the links on the right for the videos: esa.int/Education/Teachers_Corner/New_videos_for_the_classroom_to_celebrate_the_successful_launch_of_ATV-5
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 14:20:39 +0000
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