HAYWARDS HEATH, U.K. - s4story -- Sussex, UK. Children's author Matt Newnham has launched the Space Science Lesson Plan Pack, a set of ten complete lessons designed to take the planning pressure off teachers, homeschooling parents and club leaders. Built around his book Space Ranger Fred and The Shoelace Adventure.

The pack contains nine STEM lessons and one creative writing lesson. Every plan is tied to scenes, characters and ideas from the book, so children are solving problems for a story they already know and enjoy. The lessons also work as a standalone resource, and the book is not required.

Each lesson includes clear learning objectives, National Curriculum links with year group guidance, a fully timed starter, main activities and plenary, differentiation for support, core and extension groups, discussion questions, and assessment ideas. Results tables, activity grids and writing frames are included and ready to print.

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What children will do

• Launch balloon rockets and explore Newton's Third Law
• Calculate their weight on every planet in the solar system
• Build a toilet-paper scale model of the solar system
• Design an alien to survive on the book's planet, Jambori, and explore real exoplanets
• Test materials and build paper rockets, then evaluate and improve their designs
• Debug the book's broken countdown with sequences and algorithms, with a Scratch extension for keen coders
• Test knot strength and design a fastening for a three-fingered alien hand
• Work through real spacecraft calculations on distance, speed and time
• Plan and write their own Space Ranger mission using a full story-structure toolkit

The activities span ages 6 to 12, with each lesson stating its recommended age group. The pack suits primary teachers, secondary science teachers looking for enrichment activities, homeschooling families, after-school clubs, book groups and reading programmes.

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The pack arrives as ten individual A4 PDFs plus one complete merged pack  ready to print at home or school.

Quote from Matt Newnham

"Space is the one topic that gets the reluctant scientist, the keen mathematician and the child who just wants to draw aliens all leaning in at the same time," said Matt Newnham, author of the Space Ranger Fred series. "Teachers and parents are short on time, so I wanted to give them something they could print on Sunday evening and teach on Monday morning, with the curriculum links, differentiation and assessment already done."

Availability

The Space Science Lesson Plan Pack is available now as an instant download : https://spacerangerfreduk.etsy.com/uk/listing/4516296341/space-science-lesson-plan-pack-10-stem

Full details can be found here: https://www.spacerangerfred.com/2026/10/30/space-science-lesson-plan-pack-ks2/