Year 7 Science · Unit 4 · Lesson 18

Extension: Space Exploration, Past, Present and Future

Foundation Worksheet

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Date

Class

Learning Goals

Recall key milestones of space exploration and the years they happened.
Describe how Australia helped relay the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
Name one benefit and one concern of exploring space.

Warm Up

Match each event or place to its description

Draw a line connecting each term on the left to its correct meaning on the right. Or write the matching letter next to each term.

Term	Your answer	Meaning
Sputnik 1		A. The first human to travel into space, in 1961
Yuri Gagarin		B. The first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, in 1957
Apollo 11		C. A robotic rover exploring the surface of Mars today
Perseverance		D. The mission that landed the first humans on the Moon, in 1969
Parkes (Murriyang)		E. The Australian agency, set up in 2018, based in Adelaide
Australian Space Agency		F. The New South Wales radio telescope that relayed the Moon-walk television

Your Turn

True or False? Fix the false ones

Circle T or F for each statement. If the statement is false, rewrite it correctly on the line below.

Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, was launched in 1957.

Correct it:

Apollo 11 landed the first humans on the Sun in 1969.

Correct it:

The Parkes radio telescope (Murriyang) helped relay the live television of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.

Correct it:

Space junk means old satellites and rocket parts that orbit the Earth and can hit working spacecraft.

Correct it:

Show What You Know

1. Put these three events in order from earliest to latest, and write the year next to each: Apollo 11 Moon landing, Sputnik 1 launch, Yuri Gagarin's flight.

Recall 3 marks

2. Write one benefit of space exploration and one concern that people raise about it.

Recall 2 marks

Wrap Up

In one sentence, what was the main idea of this lesson?