Toolkit for educators and youth – Food production on the Moon and in remote areas
This web package is a one-stop resource for educators and youth who want to learn about food in space. This toolkit aims to outline how food production in space can relate to the health and nutrition of astronauts as well as benefit humans on Earth.
Reading list
- Eating in space
- Growing food in space: How Canada is tackling food security on Earth and beyond - An article by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) for Let's Talk Science
- Food in space: the challenges
- Growing healthy food in space and in remote areas
- Deep Space Food Challenge
- Agriculture in the satellite age
Things to do
- Food and nutrition-related activities and experiments (for Grades 6 to 9)
- Interplanetary Farming
- Master Chef: Mars
- Close Encounters of the Tasty Kind
- Healthy Meals in Microgravity
- ISS Ingredients: Reading Food Labels
- Keeping Food Safe on Earth and in Space
- O Canada! Food on the International Space Station
- Soaring in Space with Canada's Food Guide
- Space Jam! An Astronaut Lunch
- Tomatosphere
- Tomatosphere Adventure (Minecraft)
- Health in Space travelling exhibition – Digital learning kit and experiments
- Mission: Agriculture – RADARSAT Constellation Mission digital game
- Educational activity kits:
- Biosecurity (Grades 5 to 12, Ontario; Grade 5 to Secondary 5, Quebec)
- Chews Wisely (Grade 5)
Infographics and other visuals
Videos
- Feeding the astronauts of the future
- My job? Growing food in space
- My job? Creating menus for astronauts
- Deep Space Food Challenge
- Video series with CSA astronaut David Saint-Jacques aboard the International Space Station (ISS)
- Chris's kitchen: Video series with former CSA astronaut Chris Hadfield aboard the ISS
- Water recycling on the ISS