POP TO THE POLES – POP25 PRIMARY SCHOOL SESSION

This year, as part of Protecting our Planet Day (POP25), join the team at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh to explore these incredible worlds in this interactive session designed especially for primary school learners.

Explore Earth’s poles in Dynamic Earth’s Polar Extremes gallery – right next to a real iceberg!

Investigate what life is like as a polar scientist, from what they do in their day-to-day life surrounded by miles of ice and snow, to how they can learn about these environments by studying them from outer space! Find out how polar regions are being affected by our changing climate, and how we can dig down through thick layers of ice to pull out ice cores holding important information about what Earth’s environments were like many thousands of years ago.

Engaging with hands-on activities and interactives, your learners will uncover secrets of the poles and feel inspired by the scientific work being carried out to protect these precious environments.

Register for this unique session via the reserve button on the right.

An event link and joining instructions for sessions will be sent to you a few days before the event.

If you want to pop into other POP25 primary school sessions across the day, you will need to register via their own Eventbrite pages and receive separate links for these.

Check out the POP25 Collection on Eventbrite for further details and registration.

This session is part of Protecting Our Planet Day 25 (POP25), the inspiring live-streamed event for schools brought to you by the UK Space Education Office (ESERO-UK) at STEM Learning and in collaboration with the European Space Agency and the UK Space Agency.

Join us on Thursday 27 November for a world full of experts and leading researchers - passionate people working to protect our planet from here on Earth and from space - beaming live into your classroom.

An audience of over 140,000 joined POP24 last November for a programme of live link-ups with inspirational experts working to tackle climate change and the restoration of nature, interactive primary school sessions, and career journeys from studying STEM to protecting our planet.

This year we are adding even more enlightening sessions for you to pop in across the day - all featuring live Q&A with POP25 experts around the world!

Discover how space agencies, satellites, scientists and pioneering conservation programmes work to protect our planet - how they monitor, model, predict and provide solutions to tackle climate change and protect biodiversity across the globe.

Full details of the whole day’s programme can be viewed on the POP25 website.

Register for the rest of POP25 here and pop in and out of sessions across the day. Take part with your class or your whole school.

Once again, POP25 is delighted to partner with Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, the UK’s only science centre dedicated to the story of our planet.

Chris George, Head of Learning and Engagement, shares what it means to be a part of POP25:

“We’ve been lucky enough to be a part of POP for a number of years now, and it’s brilliant to be joining again in 2025! Our goal is to inspire people about the amazing diversity of our planet, and exploring the polar regions is a really exciting way to do that. Scientists have come up with incredible innovations enabling them to explore the Arctic and the Antarctic, and we can learn a huge amount about our planet through their research. By exploring these extreme environments, we can learn about what’s threatening them, as well as come up with new and better ways to help protect planet Earth.”

Follow ESERO-UK on X (@ESERO_UK) and Facebook (@ESEROUK); check out #POP25 for the latest; follow us on Eventbrite and keep popping over to our website here for updates.

Image use

Various images for POP25 courtesy of British Antarctic Survey/David Ganiford; Dynamic Earth; Eden Project; European Space Agency; Felicity Lanchester / ©BBC Studios (Kingdom Photography); Northumbria University/Dr Sammie Buzzard; People’s Trust for Endangered Species/John Webley; Project Seagrass; RAL Space; Saving Wildcats/RZSS; Tree Council; Trees for Life.

Information for teachers

You can access further resources and professional development through the STEM Learning website:

https://www.stem.org.uk

Information for STEM Ambassadors

If you are a STEM Ambassador and you would like to get involved with the Climate Ambassador initiative, you can find out more on the STEM Learning website:

https://www.stem.org.uk/climate-ambassadors

Privacy notice

This privacy notice explains how we use any personal information we collect about you when you complete this expression of interest survey.

What information we need:

In order to process your data to enable us to plan the regional launch we need:

• your name
• your email address
• your school/community group/home address
• number of young people and adults joining you for POP25

Why we need it:

We need to know this data in order to:

• contact you with updates about POP25
• share details of how to join the event
• contact you via an email with information about POP26 when it is planned

We will only collect personal data required to provide and oversee this service to you. You will not automatically receive marketing emails about other STEM Learning educational products and services, if you would like to receive these please sign up on our website.

What we do with it:

Your personal data will be shared with those involved in running POP Day at ESERO-UK/STEM Learning.

We have systems in place to ensure secure processing of your personal data by ourselves and anyone whom it is shared with. All the personal data we process is done so by our staff in the UK however information may be hosted in the US.

How long we keep it:

The information collected from this survey will be destroyed after 2 years.

What your rights are:

You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email or write to us. We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.

If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data please contact our Data Protection Officer who will investigate the matter. You can write to our Data Protection Officer at National STEM Learning Centre, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD or email datasecurity@stem.org.uk

For our full privacy notice, please see link below:

https://www.stem.org.uk/privacy-policy