This museum project has been designed to complement and support a visit to the Connected Earth gallery at Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station Experience. The project contains different activities, relating to the story of communications, and the displays at Goonhilly. These activities can be used before, during and after a visit to Goonhilly.
Worksheet 1What is Goonhilly?
Goonhilly is a satellite earth station in Cornwall. It is a place where huge satellite dishes send signals to satellites that are orbiting in space, and receive signals back from them. The signals are things like phone calls, e-mails and TV pictures.
Worksheet 2Solve the info maze!
There is only one correct path through the maze below. Help Merlin get through to the correct satellite dish by following the correct information. The first tick has been drawn for you. You can find out which are the right facts from the displays about communication downstairs in the Visitors Centre.
Worksheet 3Earth Station illustrations
This Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station handles hundreds of thousands of telephone calls, e-mails and fax calls from all over the world. The station is over 40 years old, but what was long-distance communication like before then?
Worksheet 4Interactive communication
One of the best ways to learn about communication is to try out the exciting interactive activities at Goonhilly's Visitors Centre. Most of these are found upstairs in the Interactive Exhibition Area.
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Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station
Visit our interactive Different types of satellite orbit demonstration and try it for yourself. A new window will open.