You follow what we would call a student-centered approach. Your classes are based on discussion with your students and they have several degrees of freedom when it comes to hands-on activities. You focus heavily on developing your students’ skills but you also make sure you cover some specific content. "

Building inquiry activities that take little time is the most challenging for me because it takes a long time to get prepare them, some children finish very quickly, they have different interests and need to prepare different options,we don´t have all the materials and necessary equipment at school, and 7 year old children need a lot of guidance in most of them.

You can see here a repository with ICT tools handpicked by the team of Space Awareness, which you can use with your students straightaway! 

 Submit your entry below, and see what fellow teacher colleagues from all over the world are using! You can view the results here.  

Space captures the interest and excitement of children, and has the potential to stimulate a broader education.

To start, you can explore below some resources related to the migrant community:

Also, in the Space Awareness project, the team is in the process of developing a toolkit called “The journey of ideas” meant to be a resource for teachers, young children and their families. This toolkit highlights the important contributions from Islamic scientists during the Middle Ages to our modern concepts of space and the Universe. It tells the story of a shared history based on tolerance and respect for other cultures. Thus, we encourage you to pay attention to new developments in the project for further news on the development of the toolkit.
Teachers should be trained to:

Create inclusive activities adapted to a gender and culturally diverse classroom.
Make sure that the activity can be completed by all students.
Consider at which point of an activity the teacher might need to confront potential issues of discrimination and manage it.
Teachers should be prepared to confront situations where students might raise controversial issues.
Teachers should challenge their own racial and cultural biases.
Besides gender balance, and cultural diversity in key science subjects, to integrate people with special education and physical needs is also a goal to foster diversity.