Help test Stella & request packs

Teachers, STEM Ambassadors, scientists and parents: review a single 15-minute lesson or a full mission on the spot, request a classroom mission pack, or suggest a new feature.

Three ways to shape Stella

1 · Review a lesson or mission

15 minutes to 1 hour

Pick a single lesson or a five-lesson mission below, tell us what is wrong or missing, and choose how you want to be credited (initials + surname, alias, role-only anonymous, or full name).

2 · Request a pack

Slides and worksheets

Tell us which mission or key stage you teach and what classroom materials (slides, lesson plan, printable worksheet) would save you time.

3 · Request a feature

New topics or models

Suggest a curriculum topic, an interactive simulator or a classroom feature you would like us to build next.

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Mission 1 · 11 lessons

Build your toolkit

The number skills every other mission relies on.

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  • Step 1 · Key stage 210 min
    Order of Operations (BIDMAS)
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  • Step 2 · Key stage 310 min
    Negative Numbers
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  • Step 3 · Key stage 210 min
    Long Multiplication
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  • Step 4 · Key stage 210 min
    Fractions and Proportions
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  • Step 5 · Key stage 215 min
    Calculating with Fractions
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  • Step 6 · Key stage 210 min
    Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
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  • Step 7 · Key stage 315 min
    Ratio and Proportion
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  • Step 8 · Key stage 212 min
    Area and Perimeter
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  • Step 9 · Key stage 215 min
    Volume of Cubes and Cuboids
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  • Step 10 · Key stage 315 min
    Powers and Roots
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  • Step 11 · Key stage 215 min
    Measures and Converting Units
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Mission 2 · 6 lessons

Get to orbit

What it takes to leave the ground and stay up.

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  • Step 1 · GCSE15 min
    Converting Units
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  • Step 2 · GCSE10 min
    Gears and Gear Ratios
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  • Step 3 · GCSE15 min
    Momentum and Collisions
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  • Step 4 · A-level20 min
    Thermodynamics and the Ideal Gas Law
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  • Step 5 · A-level15 min
    Gravity and Newton's Law of Gravitation
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  • Step 6 · A-level20 min
    Orbits and Hohmann Transfers
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Mission 3 · 6 lessons

Navigate

The maths of knowing where you are and where you are heading.

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  • Step 1 · GCSE15 min
    Trigonometry in Right-Angled Triangles
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  • Step 2 · GCSE15 min
    Vectors: Magnitude and Direction
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  • Step 3 · A-level15 min
    Radians, Arc Length and Sector Area
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  • Step 4 · A-level20 min
    Matrices and Rotations
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  • Step 5 · A-level20 min
    Differentiation and Rates of Change
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  • Step 6 · A-level25 min
    Differential Equations
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Mission 4 · 4 lessons

Talk to the spacecraft

How a spacecraft is powered, and how it sends word home.

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  • Step 1 · GCSE10 min
    Ohm's Law: Voltage, Current and Resistance
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  • Step 2 · GCSE15 min
    Waves: Frequency, Wavelength and Speed
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  • Step 3 · Key stage 315 min
    Binary Numbers
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  • Step 4 · GCSE15 min
    Probability
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Mission 5 · 4 lessons

Read the starlight

What light and data tell us about things too far away to visit.

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  • Step 1 · GCSE15 min
    Refraction and Snell's Law
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  • Step 2 · A-level15 min
    Mean, Variance and Standard Deviation
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  • Step 3 · A-level20 min
    Electromagnetic Induction and Faraday's Law
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  • Step 4 · A-level25 min
    Photons and Quantum Physics
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For schools, teachers and outreach

School and press pack

Want to show Stella Academy to a Head of Science, Head of Maths, STEM club leader or school newsletter? Download our one-page A4 overview sheet or copy the ready-to-send summary below.

Ready in any browser
Works on classroom whiteboards, laptops & tablets
Interactive & adaptive
Live simulators & 3-round step-by-step quizzes
DfE matched
Quotes KS2, KS3, GCSE and A-level content
Teacher credit
Named credit on lessons you help review
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Ready-to-send note for a teacher or school newsletter

Hi — I wanted to share Stella Academy (https://www.stella-academy.org), a free interactive physics and maths site for KS2, KS3, GCSE and A-level. It teaches 31 curriculum-matched topics through five space missions (with interactive models and step-by-step quizzes). They are also looking for physics and maths teachers to review missions and be credited by name, or request classroom mission packs: https://www.stella-academy.org/help