Matched to the Science and Technology Area. Its descriptions of learning do not name space topics, but its guidance uses space as a context for energy, waves and forces (the motion of planets and stars), so each card names the statement of what matters and the progression step it supports.
Curriculum links last reviewed November 2026.
A live 3D Moon, lit the way it is right now.
observe the Moon over a week and share what they notice about how it seems to change.
Look at today's Moon on the globe together. Children draw the real Moon at bedtime on three nights, then talk about what changed.
How to tell a plane, a planet, a satellite and a star apart.
explore where light in the night sky comes from: stars make their own, while the Moon, planets and satellites reflect the Sun's.
Show four mystery lights. For each one the class votes: does it make its own light, or reflect sunlight? Check with the guide.
Where the ISS is right now, and how fast it is going.
spot the pattern of day and night moving across the Earth, and share what they found.
Put the tracker on the board at the start and end of the lesson. Mark the edge of the night side each time. Which way has it moved, and why?
Every upcoming eclipse, and how much of the Sun will be covered from your town.
use the way light travels to explain shadows, and a solar eclipse as the Moon's shadow on the Earth.
Look up the 2 August 2027 eclipse for Cardiff, then model it with a torch, a football and a tennis ball.
Real-time 3D globes of the Moon, Mars and the Sun.
use a simple model of the forces on an object to explain why things weigh less on the Moon and Mars.
A 1 kg bag of sugar weighs about 10 N on Earth. What would it weigh on the Moon (about 1.6 N) and on Mars (about 3.7 N)? Spin each globe: which world pulls hardest?
How far each spacecraft is, and how long its signal takes to reach us.
use the speed of light to work out how long a radio signal takes to reach Voyager 1, and what a light-day is.
Voyager 1 reaches one light-day from Earth on 18 November 2026. Light travels about 300,000 km every second: how far is that in km?
Tonight's chance of seeing the northern lights, town by town.
explain that the Earth's magnetic field steers particles from the Sun towards the poles, where they light up the sky as the aurora.
Check tonight's forecast for Wales, then for Inverness and Tromsø. Why does the chance rise as you go north?
Where the tracked junk in orbit is, and how crowded each height has become.
weigh up how satellites affect society, from weather forecasts and satnav to the growing problem of space junk.
Show the debris map. Pupils list three ways satellites help their family and one problem they cause. Who should clean up?
Every tracked satellite in orbit, moving live.
analyse a satellite's motion with numbers: the distance round its orbit, its speed and the time one lap takes.
Pick one satellite in low orbit and one much higher. Which moves faster across the globe? Then work out how long the ISS takes for one lap.
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