To kick-start the Autumn term, we've teamed up with primary education advisors Lindsay Pickton and Christine Chen, to share a selection of engaging literacy strategies — outlining how you can enthuse your budding/reluctant reader and writers.

6 video tutorials & 17 PDFs!

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Creative, research-based instructional strategies, created by teachers for teachers.

These simple instructional strategies incorporate digital media in meaningful, effective, and practical ways.

Using different situations in sports, pupils can learn about topics from statistics, measurement and ratio and proportion. Find out why it’s surprisingly difficult to compare a tennis court with a football pitch, and how understanding averages can help you improve your running time splits.

Find out how scientists are using a highly advanced space telescope, and shadows, to search for other planets that humans could live on.

There are thousands of shooting stars seen all over the world each night, learn how they are formed as well as the devastating impact an asteroid impact could have on a city.

The Sun regularly produces the most massive explosions in the solar system — we call them solar flares. Find out how these firestorms happen and why our star is gentle compared to some of the giants in the universe.

Discover some of the most extreme planets in the universe. From planets that are cooked by X-rays to a planet so cold that even gas is frozen.

When asteroids and meteors crash into Earth, the results are dramatic. Learn about how the dinosaurs became extinct, as well as how a small meteor caused chaos in Siberia.

Hawaii is one of the best places on Earth for observing space and the Mauna Kea Observatory was responsible for some of the most important astronomical discoveries of the last century. Find out what makes this location so important for astronomy.

How can humans cut down on the enormous travel time between stars? Albert Einstein may have provided the answer.

Getting to space requires an incredibly powerful aircraft - and a supersized factory to assemble it in! NASA's VAB is the largest single-building factory in the world. It was used to build and repair the spacecraft in the Shuttle programme, as well as the rockets that carried them into orbit. Learn all about this spectacular factory.

The Crawler transporter has moved every single rocket NASA has ever sent into space from the factory to the launchpad. Now, with a new generation of heavier rockets coming, it needs to be strengthened. Learn all about the upgrade programme for this massive and unique vehicle.

The universe is so huge that even with advanced fuel types and engines, most planets are too far away for humans to reach in one lifetime. So how would we colonise new worlds? Scientists explain how plants may have the answer.

How would we power the ships that could take us to the nearest stars? Science fiction may have the answer...

There are potentially billions of tonnes of precious metals and minerals floating around the solar system just waiting to be claimed. The problem? They are buried in asteroids! So how would we mine them?

Professor Richard Ellis tells us what first inspired him to become an astronomer when he was six years old.

The astronomer's tool is the telescope. Professor Richard Ellis tells us how using a telescope allows an astronomer to look back in time by looking at the light travelling from stars in the distant universe.

When you look up at the night sky, you can see thousands of stars. By imagining each star as a grain of sand on a beach, it is possible to begin to imagine just how big space is - and the scale of the universe.

The universe is 13.5 billion years old. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old. But when did the first stars start to shine? Professor Richard Ellis talks us through the techniques scientists are using to try to pinpoint the earliest days of the universe.

The most important astronomical object is the Sun. But the Sun is one of countless billions of stars in the universe. In this video we look at the life of a star and ask why are there so many stars.

In recent years, astronomers have discovered that solar systems like are own are very common in the universe. But how common is another planet like the Earth? How likely is it that there are other life forms in space?