Deep Space High - the school for everything about space

我们的目标是帮助增加儿童及其家庭对太空的理解，关注以下主题：·什么是太空·宇宙简介·太空探索和英国的参与·太空发展·太空生活和未来太空旅行·以及无数有趣的事实来激发灵感我们建议通过一系列简短的音频功能来与儿童互动，介绍和突出太空的有趣一面，并激励儿童和家长通过有组织的教育或娱乐兴趣来了解更多。我们将由刘易斯达特内尔博士协助，他目前在伦敦大学学院行星科学中心工作。刘易斯在向青年和老年人传播空间科学方面有着丰富的经验，他将协助确保我们的专题和材料具有相关性和信息量，这些专题将在Fun Kids上播出，可在Fun Kids网站（www.funkidslive.com）和英国Radioplayer上再次收听，并可在iTunes上免费下载。我们亦会把这些资料作为学校的教育资源。“有趣的孩子”网站会设立一个专门的微型网站，以支援这套系列节目。用户可在网站上找到更多资料、图片、影片、下载和就业资讯，并可连接到STFC和其他经同意的网站，以了解更多资料。并将为9至12奥尔兹的核心儿童观众编写，尽管根据经验，我们知道年幼和年长的儿童以及父母和照顾者也会收听这些功能。因此，第二个好处是鼓励父母和年长的兄弟姐妹也发现，也许制定一个家庭计划，以了解更多.我们将促进该系列的空气中，与横幅在我们的网站上，通过编辑在我们的每周通讯和通过美联社活动.此外，我们亦会与学校沟通，让他们认识这套节目，并下载在课堂上使用。为进一步提高听众对这套节目的认识，我们会在计划进行期间举办多项为期一周的比赛。这些将以简单的问答比赛的形式进行，孩子们有机会赢得书籍（我们可以协助采购）和其他合适的奖品（我们可以讨论）。在项目期快结束时，我们建议举办一个以太空为主题的短篇小说创作比赛，最佳故事将在Fun Kids上录制和播放，并可供下载。我们发现这些比赛有助于激发孩子和家庭对空间的更多了解，并围绕主题进行思考。我们将通过听众对功能的反应，在线访问以及与我们的家长小组的直接研究，参赛作品以及第三方网站的点击率来衡量成功。我们还将通过Google Analytics（谷歌分析）查看对支持在线材料的反应。我们的总体目标是更好地了解太空和英国的参与，并激励孩子和他们的家人了解更多，也许有一些孩子选择科学科目，以帮助引导他们进入太空探索的职业生涯。

Our aim is to help increase an understanding of space amongst children and their families, looking at topics such as:• What is space• An introduction to our universe• Space exploration and the UK’s involvement• Developments in space• Life in space and future space travel• And a myriad of fascinating facts to spark imaginationWe propose to do this through a series of short audio features that will engage with children, introduce and highlight the fun side of space, and inspire children and parents to find out more, either through organised education or as a recreational interest. We will be assisted by Dr Lewis Dartnell who currently works in the Centre for Planetary Sciences, UCL. Lewis has a great deal of experience communicating space science to audiences both young and old, and will assist ensuring our topics and material are relevant and informative.The features will be broadcast on Fun Kids, available to listen again on the Fun Kids website (www.funkidslive.com) and the UK Radioplayer, and available as free downloads on iTunes. We will also make them available as an educational resource for schools.The series will be supported by a dedicated micro-site on the Fun Kids website, where users will find additional information, images, videos, downloads and careers information, with links to find out more at the STFC and other agreed websites.The features will be informative and inspirational in style, and will be written for a core child audience aged 9 to 12 year olds, although from experience we know that both younger and older children will also listen to the features, as well as parents and carers. A secondary benefit is therefore encouraging parents and older siblings to also discover, and perhaps develop a family plan to learn more.We will promote the series on-air, with banners on our website, through editorial in our weekly newsletter and through associated press activity. We will also communicate with schools to make them aware of the series and that they will be able to download it for use within the classroom.To further help build awareness of the series amongst listeners, we will run a number of week long competitions during the project period. These will be in the form of simple Q&A competitions with opportunities for children to win books (we can assist with sourcing) and possibly other suitable prizes (which we can discuss). Towards the end of the project period, we propose to run a short story writing competition on a space theme, with the best stories recorded and broadcast on Fun Kids and available for download. We find that such competitions help inspire children and families to find out more about space, and think around the topics.We will measure success through listener reaction to the features, online visits as well as direct research with our parent panel, entries to the competitions and by the level of click thrus to third party websites. We will also review reaction to the supporting online material through Google Analytics.The overall impact that we aim to achieve is a greater understanding of space and the UK’s involvement, and to inspire children and their families to find out more, with perhaps a few children taking up science subjects to help lead them into a career in space exploration.