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• Know your planets

• "Our Solar System, journey to other celestial objects"

• NASA's eye application

• Juno and mythology: You may want to link the Juno mission and the myth behind Juno the ancient roman goddess. Juno’s Greek equivalent is Hera and in Etruscan mythology is Uni. Talk to your students about how different ancient myths still inspire people to this day.  
• Juno and arts/crafts: The images received from Juno are absolutely stunning (check NASA’s website photo gallery). You can use these images as art inspiration for your students or work with your students to recreated some of them, exploring the colors and the shapes. Additionally, you may want to use the Spacecraft paper model to have some fun with your students while exploring the spacecraft’s instruments and structure.

• Juno and science: NASA has designed a many activities for students around the Juno mission. You may want to have a look at the "Explore Jupiter's Family Secrets" (https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/666160main_JunoExplore_508_20120530.pdf) guide for students between 8 and 13. For older students, you can explore the Juno's "SpaceMath" resources. 

• Participate in the mission with JunoCam: NASA invites amateur astronomers to send their pictures and help scientists decided what images to take during the spacecraft’s flybys using the JunoCam.

• Mars activity book
• https://mars.nasa.gov/classroom/pdfs/MSIP-MarsActivities.pdf
• Mars for educators

• Return to Mars activities

• Role model - Meet Jorge Vago, the 2020 Exomars mission Project Scientist

• Saturn activities from NASA: NASA has a number of activities designed around Saturn. You can explore some of them here.

• Explore Saturn and Titan at School with ESA: ESA offers  ( http://www.esa.int/Education/Explore_Saturn_and_Titan_at_school) a cartoon-style teaching aid with fact sheets for teachers to use in the classroom as well as a series of videos (http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Missions/Cassini-Huygens?mission=Cassini-Huygens&type=V) that can be used in class.
• Cassini-Huygens paper model

• SpaceScoop article “Countdown to Cassini’s grand finale”

• Universe Basics, for primary and secondary level
• Our Solar System, for primary and secondary level

1. Introduction to the structure and basic information about the Sun
2. Introduction to the structure and basic information about the Moon
3. Information about the Apollo missions, the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory, the Luna programme and future lunar missions
4. Introduction to Heliophysics, space weather and Lunar Science
5. Presentation of the “Solar System” Space Awareness didactic course for primary education

• Tracking Sunspot using real data
• Solar Rotation
• Calculation of the Sun's effective temperature 
• Safe Sun Viewer
• Make your own Sunflower
• Observing the sun for yourself

1. One rotation around the Earth-student without spinning around his/her axis;
2. One rotation around the Earth-student while spinning fast;
3. One rotation around the Earth-student while spinning very slow;
4. One rotation so that the rotation around the Earth-student is equal to the time it takes to rotate once around his/her own axis.

• Five myths about the Moon

• Mythbusting Moons - Moons

• Lunar craters

• Making craters #1

• Making Crates #2

• The Late Heavy Bombardment Era 

• Intuitive drawing and personal the geography activities using Moon:

• a series of 17 missions
• Apollo 7 was the first manned mission to be launched
• landing on the Moon: it wasn’t until Apollo 11 in 1969 when Neil Armstrong said the magic words "That's one small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind." as he was stepping on the lunar surface for the first time.

• Luna was a robotic spacecraft programme designed by the Soviet Union which launched 15 successful missions (orbiters or landers) between 1959 and 1976. Three of these missions (Luna 16, 20 and 24) managed to collect 300 grams of lunar soil from three different sites and bring it back to Earth.
• The Moon is once again among the destinations of future missions.

1. Apparent motion
2. Coordinates
3. The time of the year

• The Moon has to be passing between the Earth and Sun.
• The Moon has to be passing by a lunar node.

• Without the Moon, Would There Be Life on Earth? 

• With or without you: The role of the moon on life

• Universe in a box
• Earth, Moon and Sun interactives
• Astronomy and astrology
• Babies and the Moon 
• Calculation of the Sun's effective Temperature
• Seasons around the world
• Sun, Earth and Moon Model
• Measure the Solar Diameter

• STEM Lessons From Space 
• International Space Station Activity Book
• Astro Academy: Principia
• ESA’s ISS Education kit for primary education

• Voyager Record Photograph Index
• Music From Earth
• Sounds of Earth
• Spacecraft Overview
• Set the Controls for the Murmurs of Earth

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Gemini

Astronomy and Astrology V1

• Related theory on the classification of Galaxies

• Galaxies

• Types of Galaxies

• Clusters of Galaxies

• Discovery of Galaxies

• Active Galactic Nuclei

• the star compresses its core in order to increase its temperature and continue producing energy by fusing helium into carbon, when hydrogen stock runs out
•  this compression is so abrupt that the outer layers of the star get detached, they start expanding and lose energy fast. 

• the point of fusing silicon to iron reach a core temperature of about 3 billion degrees
• they can reach a diameter of a billion kilometres

• it is an object with gravity very massive!

• gravity can affect space-time: the greater the gravity the slower time passes by

• Imagine the Universe

• space system engineer

• material engineers

• ground segment support engineers

• and many others different careers in this field

• EU Space Awareness Career Interviews: Jorge Vago, Project Scientist // FULL 3 min version

• Aerospace Engineers -- What is it?

• Intro to Aerospace Engineering | MITx on edX | Course About Video 

• Living in the Milky Way

• What is a constellation?

• History of the Universe

• Coma cluster of galaxies

• How light pollution affects the stars: magnitude readers

• Model of a black hole

• Black holes in my school

• Galaxy classification and formation

• Galaxy Zoo
• https://www.galaxyzoo.org/

• ESA Kids homepage: www.esa.int/esaKIDSen/ 
• Planets and moons homepage: www.esa.int/esaKIDSen/Planetsandmoons.html 
• The Solar System and its planets (links to articles for all of the planets): www.esa.int/esaKIDSen/SEMF8WVLWFE_OurUniverse_0.html 
• Comets and meteors: www.esa.int/esaKIDSen/Cometsandmeteors.html 
• Rosetta: www.esa.int/esaKIDSen/SEM269WJD1E_OurUniverse_0.html 
• Comets: www.esa.int/esaKIDSen/SEMYC9WJD1E_OurUniverse_0.html 
• Asteroids: www.esa.int/esaKIDSen/SEMCM9WJD1E_OurUniverse_0.html 
• Our Universe: www.esa.int/esaKIDSen/SEMYC9WJD1E_OurUniverse_0.html 
• Paxi fun book: esamultimedia.esa.int/multimedia/publications/PaxiFunBook/ 

• ESA Teach with Rosetta website: ww.esa.int/Teach_with_Rosetta/ 
• ESA Teach with Rosetta resources for primary school level (including teacher guides and pupil activities and colour, cut and build activities): www.esa.int/Education/Teach_with_Rosetta/Rosetta_ resources_for_primary_school_level 

• ESA Rosetta mission: www.esa.int/rosetta 
• ESA Rosetta blog: blogs.esa.int/rosetta/ 
• ESA Rosetta website: www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta 
• ESA Rosetta website (technical): sci.esa.int/rosetta/ 
• Rosetta videos and animations (including Rosetta’s launch, Rosetta’s twelve-year journey in space, Chasing comets, Rosetta’s orbit of the comet and Philae’s mission at comet 67P): www.esa.int/Education/Teach_with_Rosetta/Rosetta_videos2 Rosetta images (a selection of images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft of the comet and other Solar System objects during its journey and images of the Rosetta spacecraft and Philae lander): www.esa.int/Education/Teach_with_Rosetta/Rosetta_images2 
• Rosetta mission timeline: www.esa.int/Education/Teach_with_Rosetta/Rosetta_timeline 
• Rosetta’s Frequently Asked Questions: www.esa.int/Education/Teach_with_Rosetta/Rosetta_s_ frequently_asked_questions Where are Rosetta and the comet now: sci.esa.int/where_is_rosetta/ 
• Ambition the film: www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2014/10/Ambition_the_film
• Demonstrating Rosetta’s Philae lander on the Space Station: www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/ Videos/2014/11/Demonstrating_Rosetta_s_Philae_lander_on_the_Space_Station 

• ESA Kids article on comets: www.esa.int/esaKIDSen/SEMWK7THKHF_OurUniverse_0.html 
• ESA Giotto website: sci.esa.int/giotto/ 

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