Mobilise Star Lab to Inspire Primary Children
Manchester Met’s Star Lab dome is an inflatable planetarium. It can be used to deliver immersive experiences, primarily themed around the stars and planets.
We have arranged for a team of Year 1 Primary Education students to explore how Star Lab could be used to create innovative experiences for children.
You’ll have chance to experience the lab for yourself on campus. You’ll then be supported to develop ideas for how you might create a morning of exciting and engaging learning for children inspired by the possibilities of the lab.
The project will conclude by putting your ideas into action – with a visit to a primary school in stockport, where you will deliver your project to two classes of Y3 children.
It’s a great way to develop your creative planning skills, to evidence something a bit different and to have an impact.
A bursary of £20 will be paid on completion of the project, to cover travel expenses – and a small budget for creating resources will also be made available.
Associated Badges:
In A Nutshell...
- Evidence your distinctiveness ... delivering enterprising and creative learning experiences
- Collaborate ... work with your peers as part of a team
- Make Impact ... take your ideas to a school to enhance the experience of children
- Explore ... how astronomy could be used as the basis of broader learning experiences
- Earn up to 100 Rise points ... which can be recognised within your degree.
Schedule
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10:00 to 12:00 on 08/03/24 - Student Resource Centre, Brooks Building
Experience the Starlab Spend a morning exploring how StarLab works - and starting to devise some ideas for how you might mobilise it. -
09/03/24 to 21/03/24
Design Your Activities Work flexibly and virtually as a time to devise a morning of creative activities based around the Star Lab. Note we will arrange touchbases as a group around your availability -
08:30 to 12:00 on 22/03/24 - Norris Bank Primary School, Green Lane, Heaton Moor. SK4 2NF
Delivery in School Mobilise your planning with a morning with two Year 3 classes.