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Hi Louise,
This sounds great. The rockets resource on this page might be useful for you.
Hi Ciara,
This sounds fab. It sounds like the Artemis missions might be cool to discuss with your classes.
Hi Caitriona,
This sounds fab! This might be a useful video for this lesson.
Hi Kevin,
This is fab it sounds like this resource might be of interest to you! Wonderful to hear you are using Stellarium.
Hi Conor,
This is fab! I Love the integrating of maths straight off the bat. If you are using different colours for the stars it might be cool to consider this!
Hi Aindrea,
This sounds wonderful. This might be useful for your solar system section! I often find Venus to be a good comparison for planets that are habitable as it is often referred to as earths evil twin, as it is a similar size to Earth but the hottest planet in our solar system where it can reach temperatures of 467 degrees Celsius.
Hi Janet,
This sounds wonderful! When discussing habitats I often look to Venus as its often described as earths evil twin this might be useful for you if you decide to do that!
Hi Lorraine,
This is fab, especially the way you stuck to the framework! I would recommend Stellarium for looking at constellations and sky cultures, and this resource might also be of interest to you.
Hi Ciara,
This sounds fab! This concept might be something you could include in this lesson!
Hi Caitriona,
This is wonderful I would recommend having a look at and discussing the Webb’s ultra deep field image can be cool for estimation, scale etc!
Hi Joe,
This is fab! This resource from nasa might be a fun one for building together as a class.
Hi Jean,
This is a lovely lesson, Google earth pro’s moon option might be useful here! It is also an opportunity to introduce tidal locking – draw a face on the moon (ball) and the face is always looking at the sun for example. Or solar eclipses – position the moon as best you can infront of the beams from the torch as to block it ! There will be a solar eclipse in August, so most children will be familiar with the concept see here for more information and events!
Hi Antonia,
This is a fantastic lesson! Establishing gravity as a force is a really important one. Saturn’s moon’s are some of the most exciting things in our solar system, from fascinating bodies like Enceladus or the fact that we keep finding more! We are on about 285 moons in total according to the IAU as of March this year.
Hi Janet,
This is wonderful! What would be a cool addition to this is through using a hoola hoop or otherwise include another child as the moon – they would have to face the sun at all times even when moving around – this is tidal locking! By September most children (hopefully if its not cloudy on august 12th) will have experienced a solar eclipse this would also be easily explained from this lesson. I find using chalk on the ground for orbits helps with an activity like this one.
Hi Ruth,
This sounds fab. I enjoy the class discussion at the end! Something quite simple that you could do that was actually a big deal back in the day is part of Archimedes principle – if you put an object in a container that’s almost full, what spills out will be the same volume!
