Mission Astronaut, an online educational game. Image credit: Canadian Space Agency.
Mission Astronaut, an online educational game. Image credit: Canadian Space Agency.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has launched an online educational game called Mission Astronaut designed for students in grade 3-6.

They provide easy instructions for teachers to get started and get their classrooms engaged quickly. After the students create their astronaut profile their ready to go.

The game features:

  • Missions – There are 93 short and simple activities divided into five missions: training, living in space, robotics, science and spacecraft. Each of the themes contains lots of videos and content.
  • Virtual collection cards – This is where students can spend the stars they have earned and collect cards from seven space collections. They can even build the solar system and learn fun facts about each celestial body.
  • Mini games – It‘s time to have fun and play one of six space-themed games. This includes a Lunar Rover game for an easy coding activity where your students need to program a rover to navigate on the Moon by using coding blocks.

Marc Boucher is an entrepreneur, writer, editor, podcaster and publisher. He is the founder of SpaceQ Media. Marc has 30+ years working in various roles in media, space sector not-for-profits, and internet content development.

Marc started his first Internet creator content business in 1992 and hasn't looked back. When not working Marc loves to explore Canada, the world and document nature through his photography.

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