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We are currently moving these Lesson Packs into our new Things to Do page. This is a searchable catalogue of activities, quizzes and videos that can be combined to create full lessons. We have over 80 new Things to Do with additional notes just for Teachers, so take a look!

Preview	Age Suitability	Title	Short Description	Duration	Keywords
	11 to 14 14 to 16	3-Colour Imaging	Create your own 3-colour image of an astronomical object.	60 mins	Software, Technology, Observations, Photometry, Chemistry, Primary, Secondary, Galaxies, Light
	14 to 16 16 to 18	Barnard's Star	Measure the movement and velocity of Barnard's Star.	60 mins	Software, Observations, Parallax, Maths, Secondary, Stars
	14 to 16 16 to 18	Galaxy Classification	Use the Hubble Tuning Fork to classify galaxies.	60 mins	Observations, Secondary, Galaxies, Cosomology
	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	Maths, Secondary, Galaxies, Cosomology, Forces, Big Bang, Redshift
	7 to 11 11 to 14	Hunting For Asteroids	Detect and calculate the velocity of nearby asteroids.	60 mins	Software, Observations, Maths, Solar System, Primary, Secondary
	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	Solar System, Secondary, Orbits, Gravity, Forces, Exoplanets
	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	Primary, Literacy, Space Exploration
	14 to 16 16 to 18	Seeing Workshop	Introduction to the concept of astronomical seeing and it's link to refractive index.	60 mins	Technology, Observations, Secondary, Light, Stars
	14 to 16 16 to 18	Stellar Spectroscopy	Introduces and use spectroscopy to classify a range of stars.	90 mins	Chemistry, Secondary, Spectroscopy, Redshift, Light, Stars
	14 to 16 16 to 18	Weighing The Universe	A lesson that introduces the concept of standard index notation.	60 mins	Maths, Secondary, Galaxies, Cosomology

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