Top 10 Activities for Home Learning
Keep young learners happy and engaged with these STEM-literacy activities
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Join space experts and enthusiasts on Saturday, 25th December at 12:20pm GMT for a livestream of the Webb telescope launch. You can watch the Webb launch on the NASA website. The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most anticipated space events to ever take place. […]
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Helping You Celebrate Empathy Day
June 9 is Empathy Day! Here are some ideas to help develop this crucial skill.
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Share a story about the climate
From recycling to renewable energy, Earth’s health is on our agenda for Week Four of National Share-a-Story Month.
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Helen Sharman: Britain’s first astronaut
Find out more about Britain’s first astronaut, Dr. Helen Sharman.
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Piyal Samara-Ratna: Mechanical Engineer
Read our Q&A with Piyal Samara-Ratna. Piyal is a mechanical engineer who worked on the MIRI instrument as part of the UK’s Webb team.
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Pamela Klaassen: Instrument Scientist
Read our Q&A with Pamela Klaassen. Pamela is an instrument scientist currently working at UK Astronomy Technology Centre supporting the MIRI instrument focusing on the Spectrometer and the Integral Field Unit.
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Year 5 students exploring the Universe with the James Webb Space Telescope
Young scientists on the Isle of Wight are exploring the Universe with their Deep Space Diaries. They have been completing chapter one, learning about the history of astronomy (Helio- and Geo- centric models of our Solar System), the history of refractor and reflector telescopes and light and prisms. To follow […]
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Inspired by Space: Engaging Girls in STEM
A guide for educators to empowering girls so they develop a genuine interest in science.
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Chapter Four: Writing Activities
All of the Mars Diary Chapter Four activities can be expanded into writing exercises, making them useful for cross-curricular learning.
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NASA successful test the folding of the Webb Telescope Sunshield
This article is a helpful resource for Deep Space Diary Activity 3.4: Pack Your Payload. Engineers working on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have successfully folded and packed its sunshield for its upcoming million-mile (roughly 1.5 million kilometer) journey, which begins later this year. The sunshield — a five-layer, diamond-shaped […]
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Is the soil on Mars really red?
For World Soil Day we wanted to find out if the soil on Mars was really red and what makes it look that way.
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Find out more about Britain’s first astronaut, Dr. Helen Sharman.
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Free books for UK schools to celebrate Webb’s first discoveries!
UK teachers can sign up to receive a free box of the Deep Space Diary thanks to Webb Telescope UK and STFC.
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Free topical science CPD for UK teachers
To celebrate the launch and first discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope, Discovery Diaries, STFC, and the Webb UK campaign are offering free resources to bring the excitement of space into primary classrooms. This training will focus on arts-based STEM learning using the Deep Space Diary, a cross-curricular primary science resource for KS2 […]
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JWST is the launch to watch in 2021!
2021 is an exciting year for space science. The launch of the JWST will be the biggest thing in the world of astrophysics for decades and we are excited to see how UK primary children engage with this event. Here’s what the BBC have to say about it… If the […]
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