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.
Read more →From recycling to renewable energy, Earth’s health is on our agenda for Week Four of National Share-a-Story Month.
Read more →For Week Three of National Share-a-Story Month, we’re exploring a theme close to our hearts – animals!
Read more →In preparation for the ExoMars rover Mars landing, scientists are creating 3D models (called Digital Terrain Models, or DTM) of the terrain in Oxia Planum.
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 →Read our Q&A with Libby Jackson, Human Spaceflight and Microgravity Programme Engineer at the UK Space Agency. Here she tells us about her career in the space industry and what inspired her as a child.
Read more →For World Soil Day we wanted to find out if the soil on Mars was really red and what makes it look that way.
Read more →We speak with Vinita Marwaha Madill, contract Space Operations Engineer at the European Space Agency. Here she tells us about her career in the space industry and how Helen Sharman inspired her to follow her dreams.
Read more →Everybody wonders it, so we thought we’d answer it … just how exactly do astronauts use the toilet in space?
Read more →We speak with volcanologist, Tamsin Mather. Here she tells us about her career in the STEM sector and how her job isn’t just wearing a silver suit traipsing up a volcano…
Read more →We interviewed Abbie all about her work on the ExoMars rover and she tells us why engineers have all the fun!
Read more →All of the Chapter Three activities can be expanded into writing exercises, making them useful for cross-curricular learning.
Read more →All of the Mars Diary Chapter Two activities can be expanded into writing exercises, making them useful for cross-curricular learning.
Read more →Read our Q&A with Sue Horne, Head of Space Exploration at the UK Space Agency. Here she tells us about her career in the space industry and how she kept bees as a child!
Read more →We speak with Stephen Lewis, Professor of Atmospheric Physics at The Open University. Here he tells us about his career in the STEM industry and what inspired him as a child.
Read more →How a 9-year-old’s love of science is brightening up hospital wards.
Read more →All of the Mars Diary Chapter One activities can be expanded into writing exercises, making them useful for cross-curricular learning.
Read more →We speak with Peter McOwan, Professor of Computer Science at Queen Mary University London. Here he tells us about his fascination with robotics and how he’s not out to rule the world.
Read more →Read our bio of Maggie Aderin-Pocock, an incredibly inspiring Space Scientist and who cameos in Chapter Five of the Mars Diary.
Read more →We speak with Cindy Forde, a Space Communicator with a special interest in inspiring children to see their own STEM potential. Here she tells us about her career in the space industry and what she was like as a child.
Read more →October 4-10 is World Space Week and this year’s theme is ‘Space unites the world’!
Read more →We speak with Abbie Hutty, Lead Spacecraft Engineer and the Delivery Manager for the ExoMars rover. Here she tells us about her career in the space and why she has no plans to travel to Mars any time soon.
Read more →A huge crater named Ismenia Patera exists on the Red Planet. But where did it come from?
Read more →Our showcase of STEM experts will help students challenge their ideas of who a scientist is and what he or she does.
Read more →2018 is the UK’s Year of Engineering! Get involved with our Design Your Spacesuit activity.
Read more →Download your free Library Pack containing seven activities, perfect for running events with KS1-2 or equivalent.
Read more →Keep your students motivated, whether they’re learning at home or in the classroom.
Read more →Lucy is the author of the Principia Mission Space Diary and the Mars Diary.
Read more →Every child in your class is unique, so we’ve prepared ideas for differentiation for each Discovery Diary activity.
Read more →Mission Badges are great way to incentivise students as they complete different chapters in our programmes.
Read more →Mars’s atmosphere is about 100 times thinner than our home planet’s. Find out one theory about why it’s so thin.
Read more →Why did Mars change from blue to red? This video by a National Geographic explorer explains what happened.
Read more →Developed by primary teacher Claire Loizos, these student reflection sheets encourage students to recap on what they have learnt during a whole chapter of one of our programmes or after a specific activity.
Read more →Find out all about ESA’s ExoMars rover, which will travel to Mars in July 2020 to look for signs of life.
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 World Soil Day we wanted to find out if the soil on Mars was really red and what makes it look that way.
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 →To celebrate British Science Week 2018, we created a free Daily STEM Challenge for KS1/2 or equivalent!
Read more →Mars might be about 225 million kilometres away from Earth but it’s still our closest neighbouring planet.
Read more →We love hearing about teachers who’ve put their own inventive spin on a Mars Diary activity.
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