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James Webb Telescope Deep Space Diary

Help your primary school students explore the ultimate frontier with the James Webb Space Telescope! While designing and deploying a powerful telescope, students learn about our Solar System, light, colour, infrared and much more. This detailed STEM unit is a fully supported with teaching resources, complete with a student book, activities and lesson plans for over 60+ hours of hands-on, multi-disciplinary learning.

Deep Space Diary is part of a series of Discovery Diaries, which include Principia Space Diary and Mars Diary. A link to this resource is found at the bottom of this page.

To support teachers with using the Deep Space Diaries, we have produced a series of videos that introduce this resource and its activities.


Supporting videos for teachers

Introduction to the James Webb telescope
Deep Space Diary resource and how to use it in school
An overview of the website and student activities
Introduction to infrared
Using an IR camera in school and how to access one  

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