Activities

Age Suitability	Title	Short Description	Duration
11 to 14 14 to 16	3-Colour Imaging	Create your own 3-colour image of an astronomical object.	60 mins
14 to 16 16 to 18	Barnard's Star	Measure the movement and velocity of Barnard's Star.	60 mins
7 to 11	Day and Night	Using a ball of play-doh and a torch discover what causes day and night here on Earth.	60 mins
14 to 16 16 to 18	Galaxy Classification	Use the Hubble Tuning Fork to classify galaxies.	60 mins
14 to 16 16 to 18	Gravity Workshop	Use a gravity simulator to investigate how gravity changes depending upon where you are in the Solar System.	60 mins
14 to 16 16 to 18	Hubble Flow	Calculate the expansion of the Universe using real galaxy data, to recreate the work of Edwin Hubble.	60 mins
7 to 11 11 to 14	Hunting For Asteroids	Detect and calculate the velocity of nearby asteroids.	60 mins
11 to 14 14 to 16	Jupiter's Day	Calculate the length of Jupiter's day by tracking the Great Red Spot and using trigonometry.	60 mins
14 to 16 16 to 18	Kepler's Laws	Take a look at Kepler's Laws of planetary motion and how they relate to the Solar System, but also exoplanets, investigating the TRAPPIST-1 stellar system.	90 mins
7 to 11	Light and Mirrors	Investigate how light travels, how we see objects and how to write technical reports using this series of cross-curricular lessons.	5 x 60 mins
7 to 11	Literacy: Biographies	Combine literacy and space by looking at how to construct biographies and autobiographies using Dr Helen Sharman as an example.	4 x 60 mins
7 to 11	Lunar Craters Primary	Investigate the number and distribution of craters on the Moon's surface.	2 x 60 mins
11 to 14	Lunar Craters Secondary	Investigate the distribution and size of craters on the Moon's surface.	60 mins
11 to 14 14 to 16	Lunar Mountains	Uses algebra and images of the Moon to calculate the height of lunar mountains.	60 mins
7 to 11	Moonsaic	Assemble mosaics of the Moon during different phases.	60 mins
14 to 16 16 to 18	Seeing Workshop	Introduction to the concept of astronomical seeing and it's link to refractive index.	60 mins
11 to 14 14 to 16	Speed Of The Planets	A lesson that looks at the relationship between distance, time and speed.	60 mins
14 to 16 16 to 18	Stellar Spectroscopy	Introduces and use spectroscopy to classify a range of stars.	90 mins
14 to 16 16 to 18	Sunspots Workshop	Uses sunspot data to calculate the solar cycle.	60 mins
14 to 16 16 to 18	Tides Workshop	Use a 'Tidal Simulator' to investigate the tidal effects of the Moon and the Sun.	60 mins
14 to 16 16 to 18	Weighing The Universe	A lesson that introduces the concept of standard index notation.	60 mins
11 to 14	Weight on Planets	How do the effects of gravity depend upon where in the universe we are?	60 mins