Announcing the Deep Space Diary
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 →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 →All of the Mars Diary Chapter Four activities can be expanded into writing exercises, making them useful for cross-curricular learning.
Read more →We chose Luke as August’s Star Apprentice after receiving a very heart-warming note from his mother, Laura, when she applied for Luke’s graduation.
Read more →You’ve tried the Astronaut Workout, but have you tried it in German?
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 →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 →Keep your students motivated, whether they’re learning at home or in the classroom.
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 →The first activity in the Principia Space Diary is a 5-station Astronaut Workout.
Read more →What exactly is a Zap code and how do you use it?
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 →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 →The second edition of the Principia Space Diary is better than ever, thanks to the feedback and suggestions we have received from teachers over the course of the programme.
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 →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 →To celebrate British Science Week 2018, we created a free Daily STEM Challenge for KS1/2 or equivalent!
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 →Mars might be about 225 million kilometres away from Earth but it’s still our closest neighbouring planet.
Read more →Imaging meeting Tim Peake! Students from Wellesley did just that at the Principia schools conference.
Read more →The Oxford Road Community School’s ORSAnauts watch the live stream of the Principia launch.
Read more →By the children of the Gardening Club at Hillmead Primary School, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts
Read more →Growing plants in space is an important area of research – especially as we need to explore how we might be able to grow food on planets such as Mars.
Read more →We’re going into space! Well, sort of…
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