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For educators: Where to find instructional strategies to teach STEM

Aerospace education with Airbus Foundation

Are you an educator with a classroom full of stargazers and future quantum scientists? Discovery Space is an inspiring way to support space science education via expert-designed STEM activities presented in a safe and trusted virtual environment. Start exploring our aviation and space education content:

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Science of Flight

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Mission to the Moon

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Future of the Skies

Future of the Skies

Let’s reinvent the future with science: tackling climate change is driving innovation in new and exciting ways to shape the better, healthier world of today and tomorrow. Help your students understand how emerging technologies like digitalisation, automation and zero-emission fuels will transform our future skies for the betterment of our planet.

Chapter 2: Flightpath to Hydrogen

What will airplanes use as fuel in the future?      

Chapter 1: Space, Skies, Cities & Factories

Future Of The Skies Space      
Future Of The Skies Factories      
Future Of The Skies Cities      
Future Of The Skies Aviation      

Science of Flight

Let’s explore aviation together: support your students’ science education with these accessible videos that explore how different objects fly, how aircraft have evolved and are designed today, and what you can expect on a flight – including how planes take-off, land and navigate.

How to land an airplane      
What happens when you fly      
The invisible highways in the sky      
How airplanes fly in bad weather      
3 ways an airplane can turn      
Getting ready for take-off      
Airports: The perfect home of planes      
Airplanes: Evolving for the planet      
What fuel do planes fly with?      
How to design an airplane      
What do we use aircraft for?      
The history of flying      
How do helicopters fly?      
How do airplanes fly?      
Why birds are made for flying      
Balloons: why do they float?      

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Mission to the Moon

Let’s build our own space mission: how will we fly to the moon, set up a moon community, survive the harsh conditions and travel across the moon's surface? Show your chidren these easy-to-understand videos and then help them take part in space activities, crafts and design challenges. 

Discoveryspace Moon Architecture      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space Radiation on the moon      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space: Launching into space      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space Robots on the moon      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space Waste management on the moon      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space How to communicate on the moon      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space What experiments can you do on the moon      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space What materials to build your home on the moon      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space Air on the moon      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space Meteors on the moon      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space Best place to live on the moon      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space How to fly in space      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space Landing on the moon      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space Traveling on the moon      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space Powering the moon      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space Food on the moon      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space Local lunar sights      
Airbus Foundation Discovery Space Water on the moon      

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