Use world Space Day as inspiration for a week long offtimetable event.

The possibilities are virtually limitless:

  • Make and design a rocket. Whose will go the furthest and why?
  • Turn the school hall into a space ship.
  • Make ‘Top Trump’ cards based on planets
  • Make a telescope
  • Look at how the food and drinks are produced for the shuttle flight and make your own
  • Build a remote control planetary rover
  • Invite an astronomer to give a talk (there are many enthusiastic amateurs throughout the country. Use google to find an amateur astronomy society near you)
  • What planet would you like to explore and why ?
  • Imagine you have just returned from a space mission to visit a new planet. Make a documentary and describe your experience to reporters
  • Loads of space projects at http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/projects.shtml
  • Turn your classroom into a planetarium
  • Make a model of the surface of another planet (including craters and volcanos)
  • http://www.challenger.org/teachers/lessons/index.cfm
  • Meteorites – what are they, where have they landed, meteorite catastrophes in history
  • A visit to the local planetarium or observatory
  • An evening of star gazing at school with the help of a local astronomer
  • Design eat and test space food
  • Come to school dressed as astronauts, space vehicles or aliens
  • Shuttle designs and rocket fuel
  • Satellites how do they work and what do they see?
  • Train to be an astronaut
  • Document a space trip to the strangest planet of all – “Planet Earth”