Supported by

The UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council

Norfolk Education Business Exchange

Space Observatories in School is a science and mathematics curriculum development project by Michael Cripps, Neatherd High School and Graham Colman, Taverham High School, Norfolk, UK

Space Observatories in School is a project to produce innovative ICT based resources which will allow science and maths teachers to use the Hubble Space Telescope and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory to enrich the teaching of curriculum science and mathematics at school.

• The materials were produced by UK teachers working closely with scientists and engineers involved in the space observatories.

• They have been tailored to the UK National Curriculum.  Specific learning objectives are targeted in each activity. 

• There is particular emphasis on UK involvement in international science. The materials  indicate the career entry pathways that are possible into this area of international science.

• There is advice on equipment for hands-on astronomy in school.  

• Loan equipment (two compact Newtonian reflectors and two folded Keplerian solar projection telescopes) is available to Norfolk schools.

In the summer of 2004 the two developers worked with scientists, engineers and educators at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore and the Goddard Space Flight Centre near Washington.  

All astronomical images on the Space Observatories in School pages are credited ESA/NASA unless otherwise stated