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PROTECTING OUR PLANET DAY 2025 AT DYNAMIC EARTH
More than >200,000 learners and teachers sign-up for online sessions exploring the science of protecting planet Earth.
For the fourth year in a row, Dynamic Earth are proud to have continued our partnership working with STEM Learning UK as a key delivery partner in Protecting Our Planet Day (POP!).
Protecting Our Planet Day is an inspiring – UK wide – live-streamed event for schools led by the UK Space Education Office (ESERO-UK) at STEM Learning and in collaboration with the European Space Agency and the UK Space Agency.
The online event provides opportunities for leaners and teachers from across the UK to connect with experts and leading researchers – passionate people working to protect our planet from here on Earth and from space – directly into their classrooms.
For POP 2025, Dynamic Earth led content development and delivery of two sessions; with a cumulative reach of tens of thousands of learners across the country. Primary school learners could POP into the Poles! live from Dynamic Earth’s Polar Extremes gallery and take part in STEM Clubs Hour, a packed programme of hands-on experiments and activities targeting after school and science clubs.
Chris George, Prof Pete Nienow and Dr Sian Henley present ‘POP into the Poles’ via live stream from Dynamic Earth.
Chris George and Toni Newell get ready to present STEM Clubs Hour.
POP into the Poles was created and led by Chris George, Dynamic Earth’s Head of Learning and Engagement, and Prof Pete Nienow and Dr Sian Henley; Polar specialists from the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. As part of the session, learners found out about the similarities and differences between the Arctic and Antarctica, explored Polar Specimens and took part in a Polar quiz with replica seal and Polar bear skulls and a narwhal tusk. Learners found our more about what it’s like to live and work in the Polar Regions, and how these landscapes act as laboratories of climate change with a spotlight on ice cores.
STEM Clubs hour was created and led by Chris George, Toni Newell and Gillian Maxwell from Dynamic Earth’s Learning and Engagement Team. In this packed session learners followed-a-long with live activities and demonstrations exploring the science of climate change by building their own terrariums, explored how satellites – including Biomass and Sentinel – to explore how we can protect and understand the Earth from outer space.
Reflecting on the day, Chris George, Head of Learning and Engagement at Dynamic Earth commented:
“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.”
