• Jump to main content
  • Home page
  • What's on
  • Site map
  • Search
  • About us
  • Freedom of Information
  • Complaints procedure
  • Privacy policy
  • Contact us
  • Access key details

National Museums Scotland

  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Accessibility
  • Venue hire
  • Home
Search
  • Our museums
  • What's on
  • Highlights
  • Kids
  • Learning
  • Collections & research
  • Making connections
  • Support us
  • Shop
  • Schools
    • Workshops
      • Primary school workshops
        • African Dance Adventure
        • Amazing Animals
        • Create your own exhibition
        • Dinosaur Discovery
        • Jacobites
        • Life & Death in Ancient Egypt
        • Mary Queen of Scots
        • Power of Steam
        • Romans and Gladiators
        • Scotland's Wildlife
        • Scots and Emigration
        • Seconds from Disaster
        • Space Explorers
          • Space Explorers resources
        • Viking Training School
      • Secondary school workshops
    • Visiting our museums
    • How to book and FAQs
    • Gallery packs and trails
    • Handling boxes
    • CPD for teachers
    • Special events and conferences
    • Online activities
    • Schools outreach: Museum2Go
  • Learning for adults
  • Learning for children
  • Communities
  • Learning Centre
  • Science at our museums
  • Youth Arts Collective
The Sun

Space Explorers resources

How do we look into space and what do we see there? How do meteorites from space end up on Earth? Discover the answers when you handle real meteorites, build your own telescope and plot a star chart.

Space Explorers is a new, cross-curricular workshop that helps develop skills in maths, science and technologies. You can find out more about the workshop here.

Pre-workshop resources

  • Space Explorer challenge - pupils' worksheet (932kb)
  • Space Explorer challenge - teachers' notes (1,128kb)
  • Gravity and weight - pupils' worksheet (335kb)

Workshop resources

  • Plotting your starchart - pupils' worksheet (P2-P4) (820kb)
  • Plotting your starchart - pupils' worksheet (P5-P7) (818kb)
  • Plotting your starchart grids (143kb)
  • How to build a reflecting telescope (132kb)
  • Meteorite handling collection (8,014kb)

Follow up resources

  • Constellation myths - pupils' worksheet (2,586kb)
  • Constellation myths - teachers' notes (2,583kb)

Images

To download the images below, click on the thumbnail then right click on the image and select 'Save image as' (PC) or press command and click on the image then select 'Save image as' (Mac). The images can also be downloaded as part of the complete resource zip file below.

Sun Meteor Moon Black hole Space probe Solar system Atom Planet Star Galaxy Space telescope Asteroid

Download the complete resource

You can download a zip file containing all the files and images for the resource here.

Download resource

Share this page

  • Facebook Icon Facebook
  • Del.iciou.us Icon Delicious
  • StumbleUpon Icon Stumble Upon
  • Twitter Icon Twitter

What are these links?

Connect with us

  • Follow us on Twitter Twitter
  • Join our Flickr projects Flickr
  • Read about our Museums Blog
  • Find out more on Facebook Facebook

Keep in touch

Sign up for our regular e-newsletter for all the latest news and events.

Sign up

  • Contact us
  • Site map
  • Privacy policy
  • Press office
  • Current vacancies

Shop online

National Museums Scotland, Scottish Charity, No. SC 011130