LSEP Year 4 Launch 1 – 2 November 2011
Next Steps / Ongoing support and opportunities – flip chart comments
1. Sources of funding, cost effective solutions, industries, HE, charitable organisations:
1.1. Local astronomical societies – free? Lecturers (box chocs)
1.2. Local uni-space students – help with events (free? chocs?) – Unis have schemes designed to
get students / researchers into schools
1.3. Free IoP lectures at local uni?
1.4. STFC
1.5. Ogden
1.6. Rolls Royce Prize
1.7. Times Educational video prize
1.8. Ebay
1.9. “Space for all” Grants
1.10.
EDT
1.11.
Surrey Satellites
1.12.
Stem Ambassadors
1.13.
Former students
1.14.
Green-witch, Cambridge – equipment, How to use it too
1.15.
IoP small awards
1.16.
Open University
1.17.
ESPRC?
1.18.
National lottery fund
1.19.
STFC small awards
1.20.
“touch” local business / parents / governors, win prizes/competitions
1.21.
Local charities
1.22.
Gifts in kind – eg supermarkets
1.23.
Charity events – eg fundraise by bag packing
1.24.
Becoming a lead educator at the National Space Academy
1.25.
Share equipment with other schools
1.26.
PTA
1.27.
Gatsby foundation
1.28.
Wolfson foundation
1.29.
Make stuff
1.30.
Nuffield
2. Things that work with the community and primaries
2.1. Scouts and brownies astronomy badge
2.2. Visits from amateur astronomers
2.3. Inflatable planetarium
2.4. Photography competition
2.5. Star chaser
2.6. Meet the astronaut
2.7. “Mission to Mars” day
2.7.1.Rockets
2.7.2.Bases
2.7.3.Sustainability
2.7.4.Soil sampling
2.7.5.Egg landers
2.7.6.Identify Martian bugs
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2.8. GCSE astronomy
2.9. Themed observation evenings – Saturn, Mars etc
2.10.
Space evening 6- 8pm – invite primary and families
2.10.1. Lectures
2.10.2. Workshops
2.10.3. Interactive activities
2.10.4. Space Art
2.11.
Interactive workshop in Town Library with community.
2.12.
Observing sessions – invite to star gazing
2.13.
“Space on Saturdays” – 30 primary schools to a space day
2.14.
Yrs 10 -13 run science clubs in primary schools
2.15.
Yr 12 – 13 give talks to primary schools
2.16.
Primaries come to secondary schools for Q &A sessions at end of projects
2.17.
U3A meet in our labs
2.18.
Family rocket days
2.19.
Evening classes – Beginners Guide/Longton Guide
2.20.
HE visits to work with school and community lectures
2.21.
A new thing we’ve just invented today “Stand up Space” – Becky Parker
3. Great activities to do with your own students:
3.1. Make a comet – fire CO2 into a bag +dirt+soy sauce (similar compound)
3.2. Compressed air comets
3.3. Micrometeorites – find in bottom of water butts (from roof) use neodymium magnet to
collect – look at under microscope and compare to internet for features
3.4. National schools observatory workshops – eg asteroid hunting
3.5. Make a telescope using 2 lenses and a metre stick
3.6. Visits – Planetarium etc
3.7. Scaled solar systems on the playing field
3.8. Why is the sky blue – fish tank, milk, water
3.9. Rocket building – Air – water-chemical
3.10.
Sundials
3.11.
Spectroscopes
3.12.
Plan spheres – Manchester uni – google it
3.13.
Robotic – Lego
3.14.
Mars Rover – young engineers
3.15.
Guest speakers – Jerry Stone
3.16.
Inflatable planetarium
3.17.
Human sundials
3.18.
Asteroidprac (flour + exopowder)
3.19.
Down to earth simulator
3.20.
Space book (MySpace profiles for planets)
3.21.
Flame testing, (Aurora)
3.22.
Movie maker (Trailers)
3.23.
Science Fair
3.24.
Mission to Mars day
3.25.
Apollo 13 air rockets and dragsters from 10p
3.26.
Dry ice whoosh bottles
3.27.
Top Gear – Reliant Robin launch – nice starter
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4. Useful weblinks, resources and people
4.1. STFC – links/Tabs
4.2. National stem website – e-Library
4.3. Resources
4.3.1. Stargazing live website
4.3.2.STFC moon rock loan
4.3.3.Wiki – page
4.4. Online scopes
4.4.1.Bradford
4.4.2.Faulkes
4.4.3.Liverpool
4.4.4.NSO
4.4.5.Royal Observatory
4.4.6.Callington Observatory TES
4.5. Your local Astronomical Club/Society – free astronomers
4.6. You Tube – Space Lab
4.7. People
4.7.1.STEM Ambassadors
4.7.2.University contacts
4.7.3.Science Learning Centres
4.7.4.IOP – Website
4.7.5.RAS
4.8. Stellarium
4.9. Star walk app
4.10.
Exo planet app
4.11.
3D sun
4.12.
NASA app
4.13.
Soho
4.14.
Hubble podcasts
4.15.
Fitz liberator
4.16.
ESERO
4.17.
LT image via NSO
4.18.
The Planaterella
4.19.
Planet10 ASE
4.20.
TV Programme – Sky at Night
4.21.
UpD8
4.22.
IoP – install software and connected to live telescope
4.23.
Sloan digital sky surrey
4.24.
Solar storm watch
4.25.
Planets app
4.26.
Echalk Hubble
4.27.
Brain pop
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