Resources by Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics
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A Beginner's Guide to Cosmology
This resource gives a general introduction to cosmology; the branch of science that studies the Universe and attempts to explain how it came...
A Beginner's Guide to the Universe
This resource provides a general introduction to the Universe starting with the solar system and ending with the way that galaxies are arranged in patterns, the large scale structure of the Universe. The presentation is light on facts, however it aims to introduce general concepts and give a sense of scale to the...
Crater Shadows
This activity involves perspective, modelling, light and shadow. Close up photographs of the Moon’s surface show all sorts of interesting features. Craters are amongst the most interesting, especially when the Sun’s light grazes low across the lunar landscape. The aim of the exercise is to recreate a realistic...
The Games and Activities sub-collection contains two resources with activities including modelling a lunar landscape using light and shadow and ordering things in space sequentially.
Lesson Ideas for Space and Examples of Children's Work
This contains detailed notes and lesson ideas on how one teacher used the space images and the Spooky...
Life and Death of Stars
Starting with the Sun, this resource gives a general introduction through the idea of stars being born, growing old and ending their days in...
The Material from North East Schools sub-collection contains material produced by primary school teachers in the North East of England who were part of a primary science focus group based at the Science Learning Centre North East and led by Rosemary Feasey. This group inspired and guided the development of the...
Our Address
This game invites children to work as a team to build up a sequential model of the Universe in stages, each stage being many times larger in scale than the last. The resource contains copies of the pictures (as PDF files) and detailed teachers' notes. There is a set of...
Posters and Newspapers
The seven posters can be used in class when children are engaged in a space topic. Each file contains an image and a description associated with the image, in large font type. The posters are: constellation; galaxies; nebula; planets; solar system; sunspots; and the sun. The remaining files are articles from The...
Primary Space Activities
This resource contains a number of ideas for both teaching about space and for using space as a context for learning in other subject areas.
They are:
• Poems - using different types of poems in science and some space poetry words.
• Songs and music - lists of songs concerning space and...