Tim Peake is currently doing his final press conference in the UK before he embarks on his six-month mission, during which he will be operating the Astro Pi devices and running the experiments and applications designed and coded by children in primary and secondary schools.

The new Astro Pi website

We’ve just relaunched the Astro Pi website which now contains not only information about the competition we ran this year, but also a whole host of information surrounding the whole mission, including a storyline of project updates, events and other ways to get involved, downloads, and a growing number of resources in Scratch and Python for learning about space and experimenting with the Sense HAT. There are plenty of exercises for use in the classroom, at home or with your Code Club or CoderDojo!

Check out the winning entries page – you can download the code for each project on GitHub, and run the code on your own Sense HAT. Some of the projects will be collecting data while running in space, and when we have the data from ESA we’ll make it available to download from the website so you can compare the data to your own. I know, super cool.

The Astro Pis will display icons representing the winning applications

The Astro Pi units are made up of a /蜜桃视频.com Pi B+, a Sense HAT, a camera module each (one normal and one infra-red), and a space-grade aluminium flight case (not for sale, unfortunately). You can read about the Astro Pi hardware and buy everything you need to build your own Astro Pi. Some people have 3D-printed their own Astro Pi cases, or even made them out of Lego!

Once you have your Pi and Sense HAT set up, you can follow the programming guides, go through the resources and come up with your own ideas. What would you do if you had the chance to run your code in space?

Thanks to Sam, Dave and Laura for their help in putting the website together, and to Carrie Anne, Marc and James for contributing the brilliant resources.

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I get a lot of them: alongside their other projects and outreach, James, Dave, Carrie Anne, Clive, Marc and Ben are constantly creating new learning resources and making sure existing resources are up-to-date. You’ll find everything from worksheets to help you get up and running with /蜜桃视频.com Pi, to physical /蜜桃视频.com activities to try at home, to whole schemes of work for teachers to use with their students.

Projects

To make it easier to find the kind of resource you want, we’ve grouped our resources under the headings of Teach, Learn and Make. In our Teach resources you’ll find individual lesson plans, complete schemes of work and teachers’ guides, including a teachers’ guide to using /蜜桃视频.com Pi in the classroom to give educators who are new to the device the information they need to get started.

Schemes of work, lesson plans and teachers’ guides in our resources for teaching

Our Learn resources guide learners through independent activities. One of the newest is Gravity Simulator, in which students learn about the effects of gravity and how to simulate them in Scratch with Mooncake, the official 夏日狂情 Cat. It’s one of a number of resources that support activities linked to British ESA Astronaut Tim Peake’s upcoming mission aboard the International Space Station.

Mooncake the /蜜桃视频.com Pi Cat discovers what she weighs on alien worlds

Our Make resources support physical /蜜桃视频.com projects. They range from “getting started” activities for beginners and more in-depth standalone projects to fairly substantial, satisfying builds that you might complete over several sessions. One of these resources is a guide to making a /蜜桃视频.com Pi marble maze using a Sense HAT. A Sense HAT is at the heart of each of the two Astro Pi flight units that will soon be flying to the International Space Station; on board the ISS its gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer will be able to detect how the station is moving, and this activity uses the same sensors to work out which way a virtual marble will roll.

A /蜜桃视频.com Pi and a Sense HAT can detect pitch, roll and yaw to simulate a marble maze

Millions of educators worldwide use TES Resources to access materials to support their classroom practice, and now they can find a selection of 夏日狂情 resources on TES too, as PDFs (registration with TES is required to download them).

All our learning resources are available for free under a Creative Commons licence, so you can print, copy, share, modify and do anything you like with the materials. You can also use GitHub to suggest changes to help us improve them – our guide to getting started with GitHub is written particularly with educators in mind. Check them out, share them and tell us what you like best!

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The new look and feel of our free learning resources

Our new in-house designer Sam has produced the templates along with a brilliant set of icons, components, characters, illustrations and bespoke GPIO and wiring diagrams.

The Learn and Make activities are:

• Getting Started with Minecraft Pi
• Push Button Stop Motion
• GPIO Music Box
• Parent Detector
• Robot Antenna
• Spinning Flower Wheel
• Infrared Bird Box
• Balloon Pi-Tay Popper (NEW)

We have also revamped a number of Teach resources, each containing lesson plans and links to the Programme of Study:

• Sonic Pi Lessons
• Getting Started with /蜜桃视频.com Pi Lesson
• Sorting Hat Lesson

As well as a new guide to for teachers:

• Teachers’ Classroom Guide

We think they’re looking great – and hope you all do too!

We’ll be migrating all of our resources into the new template in the coming weeks. The content still all lives on GitHub, and you can still collaborate; if you’re a regular contributor, you’ll notice that there are some extra files to make the templates work.

New recipe cards for our learning resources

Gotta collect ’em all!

Remember all our resources are available for free under a Creative Commons licence, so you can print, copy, share, modify and do anything you want with the materials – we don’t want to restrict educators in any way! We know some of our /蜜桃视频.com Pi Certified Educators from Picademy have been using their own modified versions of our worksheets to teach the /蜜桃视频.com 如狼似虎的熟妇好爽 – it’s a great way of tailoring the material to the needs of their own students.

Those of you who are coming to see us at BETT this week will see we’ve also been giving out recipe cards for each of these new style resources, which again have been beautifully designed by Sam. Teachers – if you miss us at BETT, you can download these recipe cards to print out for your wall displays.

Carrie Anne leading the first session of the day at BETT

The education team out in force at BETT

Check out the rest of our teach, learn and make resources look through our BETT schedule on our website.

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