{"id":1141,"date":"2014-06-20T11:29:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T11:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:57:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:57:46","slug":"over-half-our-universe-in-a-box-toolkits-are-now-in-welsh-primary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/2014\/06\/20\/over-half-our-universe-in-a-box-toolkits-are-now-in-welsh-primary-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Over Half Our Universe-in-a-Box Toolkits Are Now In Welsh Primary Schools!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"Image pull-right\"><div id=\"attachment_1143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/06\/2014-06-20-12.05.03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1143\" alt=\"Welsh Cosmos in your Pocket\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/06\/2014-06-20-12.05.03-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/06\/2014-06-20-12.05.03-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/06\/2014-06-20-12.05.03-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/06\/2014-06-20-12.05.03-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/06\/2014-06-20-12.05.03.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brand new Welsh Cosmos in your Pocket activity books<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<p><i>Universe in the Classroom<\/i> has now handed out more than half our Universe in a Box toolkits!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, six more Welsh primary schools received a toolkit during a teacher training CPD, along with a range of other astronomy-based resources, including our brand new Welsh language Cosmos in Your Pocket activity books.<\/p>\n<p>Membership of Universe in the Classroom is free of charge to Welsh primary schools, thanks to support from the Welsh Government National Science Academy. However, due to limited resources, only invited schools &#8212; prioritised based on specific criteria \u2013 are being accepted onto the project. These criterion was recently broadened to include all Welsh Medium schools across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Due to a lack of Welsh language science resources for primary schools, these schools are often neglected by similar outreach project and now we\u2019re working to change this!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"Image pull-right\"><div id=\"attachment_1144\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/06\/DSCF4971.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1144\" alt=\"Teacher Training CPD 19.6.2014\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/06\/DSCF4971-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/06\/DSCF4971-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/06\/DSCF4971-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/06\/DSCF4971-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2014\/06\/DSCF4971.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Training CPD 19.6.2014<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<p>Thanks to the hands-on, investigation-based materials and activities of Universe in the Classroom, the resources are perfect for both English and Welsh Medium schools.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re from a Welsh Medium primary school and would like to join the project, email us at\u00a0unawe@astro.cf.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universe in the Classroom has now handed out more than half our Universe in a Box toolkits! Yesterday, six more Welsh primary schools received a toolkit during a teacher training CPD, along with a range of other astronomy-based resources, including our brand new Welsh language Cosmos in Your Pocket activity books. Membership of Universe in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hmOz-ip","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}