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You’ll address common misconceptions about space, and explore current and future space missions.
As you explore the solar system and beyond, you’ll learn effective ways to engage pupils in science and wider STEM activities, and build a curriculum plan using the context of space exploration to support your pupils’ learning.
Syllabus
Week 1: Exploring the Moon
Week 2: Our solar system
Week 3: Exploring outside our solar system
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
- Investigate opportunities to link space exploration and space missions with your lessons to excite and inspire your pupils.
- Develop lesson plans that involve working scientifically, using space as a context.
- Explain using models, some of the scientific concepts and ideas involved in space exploration.
Who is the course for?
This course is for primary teachers of children aged 5-11 years. The course is aligned to the English National Curriculum, but teachers of other curricula will be able to explore how the topic of space exploration supports your pupil’s learning.