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Royal Observatory Greenwich - Secondary 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.
- For key stage 3 the activities have students plotting constellations, and learning about orbits, seasons and the formation of the solar system.
- The activities suitable for key stage 4 students get them to look at different wavelengths, exoplanets, gravity, the history of the universe, the life cycle of stars and Kepler’s Third Law.
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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....
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...
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...
Reasons for the Seasons
This resource, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, is a video that explains why the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere experience different seasons at the same time. It uses clear diagrams and animations to demonstrate how the tilt of...