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Deep Space Diary Chapter Three: Designing for Discovery
‘Build a space telescope big enough to capture light from distant stars’
In this chapter, students think about the designs for a space telescope including:
- designing a suitable mirror
- devising a method of keeping the telescope cool
- designing and building a model of a telescope...
Deep Space Diary Chapter Two: Telescope Training
‘There’s more to light than meets the eye – find out about the light we cannot see’
In this chapter, students find out all about light including:
- designing an experiment into light rays and shadows,
- building a colour wheel,
- writing about rainbows, and
- creating an...
Deep Space Diary Chapter One: Astronomer’s Bootcamp
‘Get started by learning about the pioneering astronomers of the past’
In this introduction chapter students describe what they would like to be to discover in the universe, and then do a series of related activities including:
- plotting a constellation,
- creating a map our Solar System...
The Deep Space Diary resources are a comprehensive series aimed at helping KS2 students find out more about our Solar System, light, colour, infrared and much more. There are six chapters that make up the Deep Space Diary; together they provide over 60 hours learning, but individual activities can also be...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
Star and the H-R Diagram
This resource, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, is a beautifully animated video giving a short overview of the life cycle of stars, but crucially how, from Earth, we can observe the different phases of star evolution by plotting all the...
Mission to Mars
This resource, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, is an animated video, teacher guidance and pupil activities that explore some of the challenges that exist for getting astronauts to Mars, and what it would be like to live there for a while....