Space Exploration for Kids
Look up often enough and you'll notice the sky repeats itself. Spotting those patterns is real science.
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🌌 Space Course
Look up often enough and you'll notice the sky repeats itself. Spotting those patterns is real science.
☀️ The Solar System
Our address in space! The Sun sits in the middle, and everything else (planets, moons and asteroids) travels around it.
🌙 The Moon
The Moon is our closest neighbour in space, and the only other world people have ever walked on.
🚀 Rockets & How We Fly
How do you leave a whole planet? You need a rocket, and one very clever push.
👨🚀 Astronauts in Space
What is it actually like up there? You float, you sleep strapped to a wall, and your morning coffee comes in a pouch.
🔭 Exploring Further
People have only walked as far as the Moon, but our robots and telescopes have gone much, much further.
Space Course: full course
- Patterns in the Sky
- The Moon Changes Shape
- Day, Night & Shadows
- Seasons & Sunlight
- The Sun Is a Star
- The Solar System
- The Earth–Sun–Moon System
- Scale & Distance in Space
- How Stars Shine
- Galaxies & the Big Bang
- Star Life Cycles & Where Atoms Come From
- Orbits, Missions & Careers
Key ideas
- The Sun, the Moon and the stars all appear to move across the sky, and they follow patterns you can predict.
- The Sun appears to rise in the east and set in the west every single day.
- We see the Sun in the daytime. We see the Moon and stars best at night, though the Moon is often visible in daylight too.
- Stars look tiny because they are very, very far away.
- Scientists learn by observing the same thing many times and writing down what they notice.
Sample worksheet questions
1. What is a pattern?
Answer: Something that repeats in a way you can predict
2. Why do stars look so tiny?
Answer: They are very far away
3. When can you see the stars best?
Answer: At night
4. In which direction does the Sun appear to set?
Answer: The west
5. In which direction does the Sun appear to rise?
Answer: The east
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