Asking children how they think you go to the loo in space, making rockets out of old film canisters and inventing ‘space ice-cream’ are just some of the ways that the space scientist says she gets young children interested in science.
Dr Aderin-Pocock was first up in the masterclass ‘How children learn: inspiring, supporting and teaching’, in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) at the two-day Nursery World Show at the Business Design Centre in London.
Best known as the presenter of the longest running television programme in the world BBC’s Sky at Night, and children’s programme Cbeebies Stargazing, she also talked about her latest project the animation Interstellar Ella, which she described as ‘cosmology for early learning’.
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