Nursery World - Your outdoor calendar: November

This month, Julie Mountain is focusing on STEM because quick science, technology, engineering and maths projects are great when the weather is so unpredictable

Activity

SPOTTING A SPACESHIP

Did you know you can spot a spaceship with your own eyes? In fact, there are now thousands of identifiable flying objects in ‘near space’ and many of them can be spotted without binoculars or a telescope. If you are a wraparound setting, satellite spotting is just a matter of timing. But if your children are usually home before dusk, it would be worth planning a special Space Evening and inviting parents and children to meet you at the setting (or in a local park) after dark.

The International Space Station (ISS) is the second-brightest object in the night sky after the Moon. It takes around 90 minutes to orbit the earth and is about 420km above us.

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