Kickstart the Universe: crowdfunding campaign aims to send astronomy educational resources around the globe

Posted on 28 May 2014 by Sarah Roberts

In January 2014, the Cardiff University’s Universe in the Classroom project began providing welsh primary schools with new and innovative tools to teach improve the teaching of science across the country. One of these resources was the Universe-in-a-Box educational toolkit Universe-in-a-Box is a selection of hands-on astronomy materials — including a scale model of the
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Pythagorean Astronomy: Happy Birthday Herschel!

Posted on 27 May 2014 by Chris North

May 2014 marked the 5th anniversary of the launch of the Herschel Space Observatory. To mark the occasion, for this month’s astronomy instalment of Pythagoras’ Trousers I decided to interview a few people about their experience of Herschel. The interviews all took place in Paris, where many members of the mission and instrument teams were
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Alien Fish, Comets and the Goldilocks Zone at Primary Workshop

Posted on 22 May 2014 by Sarah Roberts

Around 70% of Earth’s surface is covered by liquid water, but does water exist anywhere else in the Solar System? If you don’t know the answer to this question, the pupils of Maesglas Primary School can help! Yesterday, year 3 and 4 students of the school in Newport (South Wales) were treated to a Universe
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Are we all scientific experts now? Hay Festival, May 23rd

Posted on 21 May 2014 by Mark Hannam

On Friday I will be talking with Harry Collins at the Hay Festival about his new book, “Are we all scientific experts now?” The Hay Festival is one of the largest literary festivals in the world, and takes place every year at Hay-on-Wye, which is just on the correct side of the English-Welsh border. Amongst the
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Capturing the Universe through the medium of Welsh

Posted on 9 May 2014 by Peri Jones

On Wednesday afternoon, 7th May 2014, Pioneer TV production company came to film Dr Rhodri Evans and myself for a new program that is to be aired on S4C. The reason behind the aforementioned people isn’t because of our, ahem, amazing talents in science communication, but it was because they wanted scientists to speak about
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Universe in the Classroom Kicks Off the Summer Term with a CPD Session

Posted on 7 May 2014 by Sarah Roberts

The first Universe in the Classroom teacher training event of the summer term took place at Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy yesterday, on Tuesday 6th May. The 4-hour session offered eight welsh primary school teachers an opportunity to re-awaken the scientist inside, as they practised a number of hands-on astronomy activities from Universe in
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