Royal Observatory Greenwich Post 16 Resources

The Royal Observatory Greenwich is the home of Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian of the World.

They have created a range of resources to help with lesson planning. Many of these resources have a mix of worksheets, videos and teacher guidance. 

The activities suitable for post-16 students include Doppler shift, nuclear fusion, the evolution of the universe, the Kármán line and the Hubble constant.

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Nuclear Fusion in Stars

This resource, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, has a video that introduces the evolution on the universe beginning at the Big Bang, but it also has a worksheet that explores how mass loss through nuclear fusion can explain the prodigious ...

What did the early Universe look like?

This resource, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, looks at what information we can gather by viewing (but not visiting) different parts of the universe. 

The...

Calculating where Space begins?

This resource, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, begins with a video that names and describes some the different layers of the atmosphere, with the aim of explaining where the ...

What is Light?

This resource, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, has a video that introduces 'light' as the electromagnetic spectrum and how an electromagnetic wave is made. It discusses the wavelength, speed and frequency of electromagnetic waves and how we can detect them. How light interacts with matter and the concept of...