Teaching Primary Science: Exploring Space (FutureLearn)

Teaching Primary Science: Exploring Space (FutureLearn)
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This course is for primary teachers of children aged 5-11 years.
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Teaching Primary Science: Exploring Space (FutureLearn)
Plan your own space week and learn how space exploration can inspire your primary school science students to work scientifically. Explore the Moon, Mars, and deep space with your primary pupils. The thrill of space exploration is an exciting context for teaching the primary curriculum. On this course, you’ll learn how to use examples from space exploration to teach science and technology in school, and discover hands-on activities for your pupils to enjoy.

This course does not have open access anymore.

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.