Bringing Space into the classroom can prove motivating and engaging for students of all ages. Tom Lyons offers some ideas and sign-posts activities and resources

This seems to be the year for Space, with Tim Peake’s historic launch and the recent measurement of gravitational waves.

Space is a very narrow part of the secondary curriculum but can be used as a context across many subjects – particularly when using the context of human Space flight, which opens up areas such as the effects on the human body, psychology and the opportunity for us all to observe the Earth from a different perspective.

Bringing an overarching theme of Space into the secondary classroom can be a real challenge, but there are some great resources and schemes to help you out. All of the examples in this article have come to us from secondary schools across the UK.

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