What Astronauts Do
Know that astronauts are people who travel to space in rockets, that humans have walked on the Moon (Apollo missions), and that astronauts today live and work on the International Space Station
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Teaching Table
Set out your lesson
Practise the bounded task in What Astronauts Do; see exact limits before inferring broader coverage.
Distinguish Earth, Moon and a human-made object.
Exact directed source edges retained; earlier authorship is not learner attainment.
These supplied stage cards
Scrap paper and pencil; oral/pointing response where appropriate
Read readiness and decide on support without treating prerequisite authoring as learner readiness.
Open Show first and explain its model.
Use Guided Try with support and its separate adult key.
Close Show and guided keys before Try, unless this Try is explicitly supported.
Reflect on an actual attempt, including help used.
Use the supplied screen cards; copying the exact task to paper is optional, not required.
Use only invented scenarios and optional anonymous local notes. Do not request names, photos, family finances, medical data, accounts or uploads. Stop uncomfortable physical activity.
Use only invented scenarios and optional anonymous local notes. Do not request names, photos, family finances, medical data, accounts or uploads. Stop uncomfortable physical activity.
Use the complete materials on screen or print only the current sheet. Keep adult guidance out of learner view. Retain an earlier model only when the current step supplies it as context.
Teaching limits and safe use
These are finite task opportunities, not proof of mastery. Record what was attempted and what support was used.
No current crew names, launch schedule or future station-lifetime claim; historical and basic role knowledge only.
Use only invented scenarios and optional anonymous local notes. Do not request names, photos, family finances, medical data, accounts or uploads. Stop uncomfortable physical activity.
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Practise the bounded task in What Astronauts Do; see exact limits before inferring broader coverage.
Practise the bounded task in What Astronauts Do; see exact limits before inferring broader coverage.
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Check understanding
- Define an astronaut as a person who travels to space
- State that humans landed on the Moon during the Apollo missions
- Describe the International Space Station as a place where astronauts live and work in orbit around Earth
“Can your child tell you what an astronaut is, and that people have actually walked on the Moon and live on a space station?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Space Exploration
- Age range
- Ages 5–7