Covid-19: Home Learning with Discovery Diaries
Free primary STEM-literacy resources for at-home learners
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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 →A guide for educators to empowering girls so they develop a genuine interest in science.
Read more →On Tuesday, 15 December 2015, ESA Astronaut Tim Peake launched into space.
Read more →Read our Q&A with Professor Gillian Wright. Gillian is the Director of the UK-ATC and is also the European PI for the James Webb Space Telescope MIRI Instrument.
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 →For the first time since 1866, on January 31st 2018 there is a pretty special lunar treat in store for us – a super blue blood moon! Let’s find out what that is.
Read more →We speak with physicist Dr. Jess Wade about imposter syndrome, career pathways and why engaging girls in STEM matters!
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 →December 3rd, 2017 marks the first in a trilogy of super moons about to occur, but what is a super moon?
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 →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 →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 →Introducing Sean Goldsbrough, Senior Orbital Analyst at the UK Space Agency.
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 →Meet July’s Star Apprentice, Thomas! Thomas (11) wowed us with his superb work – especially his map and comment about going to Denmark.
Read more →How a 9-year-old’s love of science is brightening up hospital wards.
Read more →Meet Sally Ride, America’s first female astronaut and an inspiring role model for children and adults alike.
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 →Fill out the form before July 31st 2017 and get free Space Diary graduation certificates.
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 →Meet Harry, 2017’s very first Space Diary graduate!
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 →Marianne Hopwood – science teacher, STEM expert and home educator – writes about her experience of working through the Space Diary with her two boys.
Read more →Here is a snapshot of the coverage of the Principia Space Diary during and after Tim Peake’s mission.
Read more →The Mars Diary is a primary science programme, but it is also so much more.
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 →Space Diary illustrator, Ben Hawkes, explains how he drew the International Space Station (ISS).
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 →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 →Find out all about ESA’s ExoMars rover, which will travel to Mars in July 2020 to look for signs of life.
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 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 →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 →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 →Saturday 18th June is the big day when Tim Peake returns to Earth after six months on the International Space Station. Tim will return in a Soyuz capsule, along with crewmates Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra. He’s due to land in Kazakhstan at 10.15am BST.
Read more →Richard Crowther is the chief engineer at the UK Space Agency. We spend five minutes chatting with him about his career in the space industry.
Read more →Astronomer Sheila Kanani is the Education, Outreach and Diversity Officer at the Royal Astronomical Society.
Read more →British Science Week 2016 has arrived! To help you celebrate, we’ve put together a list of our favourite space-related experiments for your Space Apprentices. We can’t wait to see how you celebrate Science Week. Don’t forget to use #SpaceDiary on Facebook and Twitter!
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 →Mike Salter is an engineer who works at Urthecast. Just two years after graduating from university, two Earth-imagine cameras which Mike had played a major role in developing were installed on the ISS. Not a bad start to a career in space engineering!
Read more →This month, our Principia Mission Space Diary investigates some of the things astronaut Tim Peake might see in space, like the planets in our solar system.
Read more →Berti Meisinger (ESA Mission Director) is Astronaut Tim Peake’s Mission Director and his main point of contact on Earth. We asked Berti to tell us about her job and give some advice to young space enthusiasts.
Read more →I’m sure you can recall a time when someone asked, ‘Do you remember where you were when…’ usually followed by a major historic event. Imagine future dinner table conversations, when our young people are asked if they remember where they were when the first British astronaut went to the International Space Station under the Union flag, and they reply, ‘Remember it? I was part of it!’
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…
Read more →We speak with Andrew Kuh, Human Spaceflight and Microgravity Programme Manager at the UK Space Agency. Here he tells us about his career in the space industry and how he got to watch Tim Peake’s launch in Kazakstan.
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