daily stem challenge British Science Week 2018 It’s british science week! Happy British Science Week educators, parents and future STEM experts! Are your students ready to take on the Curved House Kids Daily STEM Challenge? We’re confident they have what it takes! Our five cross-curricular activities ask students to code, de-code, design, calculate, draw and compose their way through a mini-mission to space. Our accessible, multi-modal approach is sure to engage all students. Complete one activity a day for a week to succeed in this challenge. Our pack includes everything you need to make British Science Week fun and flexible, including teaching notes, a progress checklist for students and a completion certificate. Good luck! The Space Crew Curved House Kids ACTIVITY ONE DESIGN YOUR SPACESUIT Every astronaut needs a spacesuit to keep them safe. With digital and multimedia resources provided, students will research the types of spacesuits astronauts need, and the features they include, then they will design their own suit. Design your spaceSUIT It’s time to design your own spacesuit! You can design it however you want but don’t forget to include features that will let you breathe, communicate and keep you protected. Zap to see ESA astronaut Tim Peake in the Sokol suit he wore for launch and re- entry and find out what special features your suit will need. PRINCIPIA SPACE DIARY © CURVED HOUSE KIDS AND LUCY HAWKING PRINCIPIASPACEDIARY.ORG Resources Required without your whole suit flooding! • Coloured pens or pencils • An air valve. An oxygen supply connected to the suit • Optional: Tin foil for reflection, cotton wool for is activated in times of de-pressurisation. insulation • A radio and microphone to communicate. Background to the Activity Running the Activity ACTIVITY 0.4 A spacesuit isn’t just a uniform, it’s like a personalised, Encourage older pupils to use a range of material human-shaped spacecraft designed to keep astronauts DESIGN YOUR SPACESUIT! samples to design the suit. This works well fastened on From the Pre-launch Chapter of the alive in space. There are two types of space suits: one as a ‘swatch’ using a treasury tag. Ideas: Principia Space Diary for travelling to and from space, and one for doing http://principiaspacediary.org/ spacewalks (EVAs). Tin foil: to reflect radiation activities/design-your-spacesuit Cotton wool: for insulation – to trap air The EVA suits for spacewalks have lots of different jobs Black inside: to absorb heat to do. They provide the astronaut with air to breathe, LEARNING LEVEL White outside: to reflect heat radiation keep them warm or cool, protect from debris flying KS1, KS2, P1-5 through space, allow the astronaut to move fairly freely Questions for the Class and even have rocket boosters in case the astronaut gets into trouble! The suits are heavy on Earth but zero • What are the different parts of the spacesuit? gravity in space makes them feel light. • Why is the spacesuit made like a onesie? When travelling to the ISS and back to Earth, Tim Peake • How heavy will the spacesuit feel in space? wore a Sokol spacesuit, which is different to the one he used on his space walks. ‘Sokol’ means ‘falcon’ in • How do you go to the toilet when you are in the Russian, and it is a rescue suit. This is the same design spacesuit? as the one that Helen Sharman wore when she went to Extensions & Digital Resources the Mir Space Station. The main features of this type of space suit are: ZAP! Students can access use the Zappar app to find out more about Tim Peake’s spacesuit and to • Two layers: the inner one is rubberised and the outer see a video with Lucy Hawking and Dallas Campbell one is made of white nylon. discussing spacesuits at the Science Museum. See Zappar instructions at the link below and note that the • Boots that are built into the suit and space gloves mobile/tablet will need to be connected to the internet: attached at the wrists by special aluminium http://principiaspacediary.org/using-zap-codes-to- fastenings. strengthen-digital-literacy/ • A helmet that is also part of the suit. To put the suit on you have to squeeze your head through a neck seal into the helmet, which has a visor on a hinge (so you can open it). The seal at the neck means you can float in water on landing and open your visor ACTIVITY Two THE SPACE QUIZZES Our trio of quizzes is a fun and exciting way to learn about space, whether you run each quizz as a group activity or for students to complete individually. Our first True/False quiz explores what happens to astronauts’ bodies when they go to space. Our second takes students to Mars, where they can learn the basics about our neighbouring planet. Students can even write their own questions to challenge their classmates. Our third quiz activity allows students to make their very own online quiz, using Code Club’s Scratch. Students will love this coding challenge, which they can share with the class. True False True You can’t poo in space! can’t You Your bones become weaker. Your ears turn purple. Your face gets puffy. Your You’ll probably feel sick for your probably You’ll thumbs fall off. Your You grow hair all over your body. hair all over your body. grow You You get taller. You eyeballs change shape. Your 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 1. 2. first few days in space. 3. 4. YOU MAY FIND THAT... FIND MAY YOU WHEN YOU GO TO SPACE SPACE TO GO YOU WHEN Zap for answers! Hey guys! of these true? are astronauts like you your friends! I’m Marco and I help question and test 10. Add your own understand how your body help me work out which five will change in space. Can you will change in space. Can you Space In Body Your PRINCIPIA SPACE DIARY © CURVED HOUSE KIDS AND LUCY HAWKING PRINCIPIASPACEDIARY.ORG True False True PRINCIPIA SPACE DIARY ©CURVED PRINCIPIASPACEDIARY.ORG HOUSE KIDS AND LUCYHAWKING DIARY PRINCIPIA SPACE bounce twice as high on Earth. Lower gravity on Mars means you would the sun. Mars is the eighth planet from A year on Mars is 1000 Earth days long. Mars has the highest mountain in Humans have successfully flown to Earth with the Mars is visible from has weather! solar system, Olympus Mons. Mars has two moons. The planet Mars was named after it also Because Mars has an atmosphere, the Mars Bar. the Mars Bar. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Mars and founded a Martian city. 9. naked eye! 10. YOU TELL US... TELL YOU TRUE OR FALSE? OR TRUE your friends! For number 10, create your own create question and test you on this Hi explorers, I’m Sue Horne, important mission. at the UK Space Agency. at the UK Space Agency. Head of Space Exploration Let’s test your knowledge of Let’s we send the Red Planet before quiz answers! Zap for the the for Zap mars YOUR MISSION MARS DIARY © CURVED HOUSE KIDS AND LUCY HAWKING MARSDIARY.ORG Code your own quiz! Extend the quiz activity further by coding your own quiz with our Scratch coding activity developed by Code Club. https://codeclubprojects.org/en-GB/space- mission/space-body-quiz/ Resources Required because the lack of gravity means the spine will expand and relax more easily. • Add-on: Post-its to encourage questions from the class. Running the Activity • Computer/s if you wish to complete the Code Club extension activity Ask the questions to your class or have them test each other. For older children, ask them to research the effects of space on the human body and come up with their ACTIVITY 0.2 Background to this Activity own questions. Could they make a presentation or give a YOUR BODY IN SPACE There are many changes that the human body goes talk on their research? From the Pre-launch Chapter of the through in space and the International Space Station is Principia Space Diary Students can use the Zappar app on the iphone or tablet the perfect environment to monitor these changes. Many http://principiaspacediary.org/ to access the answers. See instructions overleaf. of Tim’s activities on the ISS were tests on his body. activities/your-body-in-space Pre-flight, astronauts need to be sure that they do not Quiz Answers LEARNING LEVEL have any colds or infections that they could take into the 1. True 2. True 3. False 4. True 5. True 6. False 7. False 8. ISS. They also see flight surgeons who make sure they KS1, KS2, P1-5 True 9. False do not have any medical conditions that would require treatment so far away from home. There is some medical Extensions & Digital Resources equipment on board but astronauts would need to be flown home if they had a major health issue. See Code Club activity on previous page. In microgravity, astronauts float around and therefore ZAP! Students can access the quiz answers themselves there is no load on their body. Their bones and muscles using the Zappar mobile/tablet app. See Zappar instruc- decondition and they need to exercise daily on the tions at the link below and note that the mobile/tablet space station to counteract the effects of space. Tim will need to be connected to the internet: http://prin- trained for two hours per day on the ISS to counter the cipiaspacediary.org/using-zap-codes-to-strength- effects of gravity and he even completed the London en-digital-literacy/ Marathon up there.