Welcome to week 3

In Week 3, we’ll discuss the importance of linking education with the professional world of science and highlight some brilliant opportunities that can help your students connect with real science and scientists. We’ll look at digital tools and physical trips such as one to the Royal Observatory Greenwich, as ways of getting your students inspired to follow a career in science.

We’ll also look at how you can approach teaching online. Focusing on how to setup to teach virtually, how to keep yourself and your students safe online, and how to build an engaging and interactive lesson that keeps your students enthused about learning science.

Towards the end, we’ll also take some time to reflect on how your perceptions and confidence in teaching secondary science may have changed having completed the course, so we encourage you to share your thoughts.

We hope that you’ve been prompted to consider a range of factors that affect science learning and feel prepared to plan effective lessons with your newly consolidated knowledge of space physics. Now it’s time to expand out beyond the curriculum. If you are enthusiastic and passionate about science, your students will be infected with that excitement too.

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it’s about inspiring!