The eighth National Astronomy Week (NAW 2020) is here! Running from Saturday 14 November to Sunday 22 November, UK astronomers will celebrate the close approach of Mars to the Earth with a series of free online talks and remote observing events. Mars is currently close to the Earth and visible […]
Read more →For Week Three of National Share-a-Story Month, we’re exploring a theme close to our hearts – animals!
Read more →Free primary STEM-literacy resources for at-home learners
Read more →Children’s publisher Curved House Kids is excited to announce that their hugely popular primary school science programme has been translated into Welsh, with a mission to inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers and astronauts. 3,000 copies of the Discovery Diaries will be made available to primary schools in Wales […]
Read more →Mae’n bleser gan y cyhoeddwr Curved House Kids gyhoeddi bod eu rhaglen wyddoniaeth hynod boblogaidd i ysgolion cynradd wedi cael ei chyfieithu i’r Gymraeg, gyda’r nod o ysbrydoli’r genhedlaeth nesaf o wyddonwyr, peirianwyr a gofodwyr. Bydd 3,000 o gopïau o Dyddiaduron Darganfod ar gael i ysgolion cynradd yng Nghymru i gefnogi eu hadnoddau addysgu STEM (Gwyddoniaeth, Technoleg, Peirianneg a Mathemateg).
Read more →Our farewell to an important member of the Discovery Diaries crew.
Read more →To celebrate the launch of the Deep Space Diary, Curved House Kids and the Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) are giving away 15,000 free books to UK schools.
Read more →Who was Rosalind Franklin, the scientist behind the ExoMars rover’s name?
Read more →How a 9-year-old’s love of science is brightening up hospital wards.
Read more →Here is a snapshot of the coverage of the Principia Space Diary during and after Tim Peake’s mission.
Read more →This just in: Tim Peake is to return to space.
Read more →Lucy is the author of the Principia Mission Space Diary and the Mars Diary.
Read more →Since launching the first edition of the Space Diary in 2015, we have received so many wonderful comments from teachers across the UK.
Read more →Each month we’re looking to showcase some Star Apprentices and we want your students to help us find them!
Read more →For those interested in pedagogical methodologies, here’s a whistlestop tour of ours.
Read more →Just like a space mission needs many people with different skills to make it a success, the Mars Diary is a truly collaborative project involving authors, illustrators, designers, project coordinators, teaching experts and, of course, STEM experts.
Read more →Principia Space Diary is back, giving thousands of schoolchildren the chance to become space experts as they learn about British European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake’s historic space mission.
Read more →Principia Space Diary is back, giving thousands of schoolchildren the chance to become space experts as they learn about British European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake’s historic space mission.
Read more →Imaging meeting Tim Peake! Students from Wellesley did just that at the Principia schools conference.
Read more →Tim Peake is heading off on his post-flight tour of the UK this month, visiting all four UK national capitals along with Leicester, Manchester, Salford and Glasgow.
Read more →We are thrilled to announce that the UK Space Agency/ESA have extended funding of the Principia Space Diary project, doubling the number of UK primary school students who will receive copies of the book. That’s twice as many space apprentices, and twice as much fun!
Read more →15,000 schoolchildren invited to write and draw their way into space with British European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake.
Read more →We’re going into space! Well, sort of…
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