A Journey Beyond the Textbook

Discover the forces that shape Io — tidal flexing, gravitational pull, and volcanic energy — while experiencing how emotion and creativity bring scientific concepts to life.

Science Meets Emotion

Students don’t just learn about Io’s volcanic world — they feel it through story-driven visuals and sound with art, poetry, and orchestral music.

Showcase your Interdisciplinary Skills

Through the ORBIT Legacy Project, you’ll bring your discoveries together in a creative expression — whether written, visual, or musical. It’s your opportunity to transform what you’ve learned into something uniquely your own.

Io - Trek II

Io Trek II invites learners onto the surface of Io, where nothing remains still. This Trek explores a world in constant renewal shaped by fire, gas, colour, and motion. Through science, music, and poetic reflection, participants experience Io’s ever-changing landscape as a living system, discovering how volcanic forces rewrite the moon again and again, and how transformation itself becomes the story.

Amanda Lee Falkenberg

Composer, Pianist, and Founder of The Moons Symphony and LUNAR Amanda Lee Falkenberg is an award-winning Australian composer and pianist whose pioneering work bridges science, music, and art. Collaborating with NASA scientists, astronauts, and leading orchestras, she composed The Moons Symphony — a seven-movement orchestral journey inspired by the outer moons of our solar system. Her vision for LUNAR grew from a desire to ignite curiosity in learners of all ages, blending scientific discovery with emotional and creative expression. Through this multi-sensory educational program, Amanda helps students experience the wonders of planetary science through storytelling, sound, and imagination. With a career spanning film, stage, and symphonic music, Amanda’s mission is to connect audiences to the universe — and to themselves — through the universal language of music.

Curriculum

9 Chapters · 95 Lessons

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    Mission Briefing

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      🖨️ Mission Briefing Printable Worksheets

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      📗 Welcome to Trek II "Io's Ever-Changing Surface"

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      🎥 Prepare for Moon Landing

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      📗 Trek Trivia Overview

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      📗 What is an Eclipse?

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      🎥Trek Trivia 1

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      📋 Trivia Quiz - Part 1

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      📗 The Three Main States of Matter

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      🎥Trek Trivia 2

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      📋 Trivia Quiz - Part 2

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      📗 The Smell of Sulfur

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      🎥Trek Trivia 3

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      📋 Trivia Quiz - Part 3

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      📗 Mission Briefing Insights - Introduction

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      🎥 Mission Briefing Insights

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      📗 Activate Sensory Memory Activity

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      ✓ Upload your Activate Sensory Memory Activity

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      🧭 Key Discoveries - Mission Briefing

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      📡 Mission Control Transmissions

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    Science Odyssey

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      🖨️ Science Odyssey Printable Worksheet

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      📗 Science Odyssey Overview "Io’s Ever-Changing Surface"

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      🎥 Science Odyssey Overview

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      🎥 Science 1. Io’s Atmospheric Phenomena

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      🎥 Science 2. Surface Renewal

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      🎥 Science 3. Io – The Artist: Chemical Colours of a Restless Moon

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      📗 Trek II – Science Glossary

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      🎥 🥼 Scientific Insights

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      📋 Science Odyssey Quiz

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      🧭 Key Discoveries - Science Odyssey

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      📡 Mission Control Transmissions

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    Poetry Tour

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      🖨️ Poetry Tour Printable Worksheets

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      📗 The Human Response to Colour - Poetry Prologue

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      📗 World of Lyrics Activity

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      ✓ Upload World of Lyrics Activity

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      📗 Introducing the Libretto - Io's Ever-Changing Colour Scheme

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      🎥 Composer introduces the Poetry Tour

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      🎥 Science in Song

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      🎥 Poetry Tour Activity Introduction by Composer

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      📗Io’s Colour Scheme Activity

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      ✓ Upload Io’s Colour Scheme Activity

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      📗 Trek II – Science Glossary (Reference)

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      📗 (Optional) Behind the Libretto: Composer’s Insights

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      📡 Mission Control Transmissions

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    Music Safari Phase 1 – Meet the Orchestra

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      🖨️ Music Safari Printable Worksheets

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      📗 Music Safari Welcome

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      📗 Meet The Percussion

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      🎥 Explore The Percussion (Safari through an Orchestra)

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    Music Safari Phase 2 – Listening Safari

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      🎵 1st Listening Activity (Audio)

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      🔴 Music and Science Connection Activity

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      🎵 2nd Listening Activity (Audio)

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      ✓ Upload your Music and Science Connection Activity

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    Music Safari Phase 3 – Score Reading Safari

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      📗 Score Reading Safari Welcome

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      🎥 1st viewing: Watch the Trek II music video excerpt

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      📗 Score Reading Safari Activity

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      🎥 2nd viewing: Watch the Trek II music video excerpt

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      ✓ Upload your Score Reading Safari Activity

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    Music Safari Phase 4 – Symphony of Words

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      🎥 Symphony of Words (Instructions for Activity)

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      📗 Symphony of Words Activity

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      📗 Trek II – Science Glossary Review

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      📡 Mission Control Transmissions

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    Synergy of Worlds

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      🖨️ Printable Worksheet Synergy of Worlds

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      📗 Welcome to Tonality and Sharps

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      🎥 "Periodic Table" of Tonality

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      📗 Inside the Composer’s Desk: Introduction

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      🎥 Composer’s Desk: Remembering the Order of Sharps

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      📗 Major and Minor Key Signatures - 1 Sharp

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      🎥 Composer’s Desk: Tonality and Drawing the Sharp:

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      ✓ Upload The Colour of Sound Worlds Activity

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      🎵 Trek Summit – Pure Audio Experience

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      📗 Program Music Introduction

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      🎥 Program Music - Inside the Score

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      📋 Inside the Score Quiz

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      📗 Trek Summit Grand Finale - Io's Ever-Changing Surface

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      🎥 Trek Summit – Grand Finale

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      📗Trek Summit Reflective Survey

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      🎥 Epilogue Reflection Activity: Prometheus

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      📗 Epilogue Reflection Activity

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      📗 Musical Alphabet Landscape (Activity for non-musicians)

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      📡 Mission Control Transmissions

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    The ORBIT Legacy Assignment

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      🖨️ Printable Worksheet ORBIT

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      📗 Postcard Back to Planet Earth

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      🎥 ORBIT Assignment Incubation continues

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      📗 Spaceport Lounge

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      📗 Science and Music Summary (Trek II)

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      📗 ORBIT Incubation

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      ⤵️ LUNAR Spaceport – Trek Clearance Card (Download)

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      ⤵️ LUNAR Interplanetary Passport

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      🔴 ORBIT Rubric for Reflective and Creative Excellence

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      🔴 LUNAR Certification Pathway through ORBIT

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      🎥 Where are you on your LUNAR Adventure?

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      📗 ✓ Submit Your second ORBIT Sketch

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      🚀 Congratulations! Advance to Trek III ➡︎

What people are saying about THE MOONS SYMPHONY™ | LUNAR

Real experiences from learners, educators, musicians, and space-enthusiasts who have discovered a new way to learn science through music and art.

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“The video presentations are artistically beautiful, informative, and deeply inspiring. The delivery is a joy to listen to, and I found myself returning to the videos again and again. Io Trek 1 expanded my scientific understanding of Io in a way I never expected, while the musical narrative opened an entirely new world for me. What I initially feared most became the most exciting part of the experience. I learned more about the symphony orchestra here than in my entire life. The combination of science, music, and artistic reflection is powerful. The journal-based approach helped me integrate what I was learning, and the creative activities reignited my passion for writing and sketching. LUNAR didn’t just teach me new information. It changed how I absorb, process, and remember it.”
Carol Botha

South Africa

LUNAR’s Trek I to Io is a journey of volcanic discovery, seamlessly blending the underpinning science with the poetry and music of The Moons Symphony.  As she guides you through this unfamiliar terrain, Amanda informs, inspires and fosters creativity in a unique and wonderful way, allowing you as a learner to think, reflect and imagine.     Aurally and visually stunning, this Trek has been thoughtfully and lovingly created so you really appreciate how music and art fuse, and it offers generous insights into Amanda’s own creative process.  I wish somebody had introduced me to classical music and science in this way many moons ago!”


Andrew Tebbutt

London, United Kingdom 

This course is an excellent example of interdisciplinary content made available to students at an introductory level. It is neither intimidating nor overwhelming. It is what many might consider to be an unlikely combination of real interplanetary and lunar science, stunning artwork, poetry, orchestral music, and the study of musical instruments used in symphonies. But this combination truly comes together in a wonderful blend of elements that brings Io to the forefront and into your home or classroom. It helps us to understand what this moon is about and the celestial tug of war in which it exists. The course content is broken down into easy-to-understand sections and Amanda’s narration seamlessly connects it all together as she guides us through the course. Short quizzes allow students to check their knowledge while various downloadable worksheets allow them to participate in activities and give them opportunities to express their thoughts and opinions about the content in addition to their creative interpretations of it as well. For learners who have never thought about exploring orchestral music and choral work or who perhaps have limited exposure but never developed an appreciation for them, this course could change that. The music is an energizing and emotional experience, and the artwork brings it all to life visually. The study of Io is very engaging, it is exciting, and it left me full of a new appreciation for music and the visual arts as I anticipate the next lunar adventure!
Tom Harkay

Houston

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