Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to order the events in the life of Neil Armstrong and his role in the space race, a worksheet to select and record notes to use in a written report about space exploration and a template to structure and format a report about the Moon landing in 1969 as part of the space race.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to write a report about a significant event that occurred during the space race in the post war period.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to explore how the space race in the 1950s and 1960s heralded a number of technological, cultural and political changes and advancements in the world. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.