European Space Agency
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Teacher's Corner

Lift-Off

27/10/2008

Quick Facts

Subject:

physics and chemistry

Level:

upper secondary

Language:

Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Nederlands

Type:

teaching materials

Format:

printed and downloadable brochure

Not all students find physics and chemistry fun, but if you ask them to calculate how noisy a rocket is or how many times an astronaut on the ISS sees the sun rise in an Earth day, their opinion might change.

The exercises

ESA’s Education Office has published a brochure containing 25 physics and chemistry exercises, based on real space data, for secondary school students aged from 15 to 18. The exercises have been developed in close cooperation with ESA scientists and engineers who have also checked the data and the accuracy of the exercises.