ISS Education Kit now available in eleven languages

The ISS Education Kit has been developed to support teachers who are eager to use space as a motivating tool for teaching and want to use elements of today’s space science and technology to capture the interest among their students.

After an initial release in English, the kit has now been translated into Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.

Target groups and content

The ISS Education Kit targets teachers throughout Europe and their students aged 12–15. It uses the International Space Station as a context to teach a variety of subjects by introducing exercises in biology, maths, and chemistry as well as social science and art – all related to the life and work of astronauts on board the ISS.

The ISS Education Kit is presented in an A4 folder and contains five chapters, including suggestions for classroom activities and relevant background information, colour overhead transparencies, a glossary and a teacher’s guide.

To get your copy

If you are a teacher at a school in one of the 17 ESA Member States*, and you teach pupils aged 12-15; you can receive a copy of the kit.

 

IMPORTANT - read carefully before ordering:   Only education professionals are entitled to receive the kit Following an ESA mandate, we are only allowed to distribute our material for free throughout the 17 ESA Member States. Unfortunately we cannot distribute our material to schools or other educational institutes in other countries. Please bear in mind that invalid requests will be filtered out. Please complete in ENGLISH all fields such as profession and subjects taught. You only need to click on the submit button once... The ISS Education Kit is available in the following languages: Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. N.B. The Spanish version is no longer available - you can order a different language or download the Spanish pdf files.

Please complete the ISS Education Kit request form. N.B. The amount of requests received for our materials is beyond our expectations. Besides thanking you for your enthusiasm for our work, we would like to ask you for a little bit patience. A backlog of orders will be sent out in October.

Downloads

The ISS Education Kit is also available as a download in pdf format, click here for the downloads page »»

* ESA Member States are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.