Announcing the Icy Moons Collection of Educational Resources
To celebrate the launch of ESA’s JUICE mission, Europlanet is releasing a new collection of free educational resources themed around icy moons in our Solar System.
The first three resources, on Europa, Ganymede and Enceladus, are now available for educators and science communicators to try out. The resources include presentations, teachers’ notes, videos, links to additional resources and a glossary of terms related to the exploration of these mysterious worlds.
The resources are targeted at students aged 10-14 years old and cover topics common on European educational curricula for biology (conditions for life, life in extremes) physics (magnetism), chemistry (states of matter, solutions), geology (surface landforms, hydrothermal vent systems).
New resources and translations will be added over the coming weeks. Feedback on the content, or how you have used it, is welcome.
The Icy Moons Collection is the latest addition to Europlanet’s growing collection of educational resources linked to astrobiology and planetary science, which include:
- Teaching Resources
- The Mars Collection – seven education packs linking environments on Mars with sites on Earth with similar conditions (terrestrial analogues)
- The Illustrated Guide to Mars – collections of illustrations on topics linked to the exploration of the Red Planet
- Videos
- Astrobiology: Life in the Universe – a video (available in five languages) about the search for life in our Universe
- Jupiter and its Icy Moons – a video on exploration of Jupiter and the icy worlds that surround it
- The Case of the Rocks from Space – what meteorites can tell us about the formation of our Solar System.
- Recommended external resources relevant to astrobiology and planetary science.
