Produced by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, this booklet shows how to use Kepler’s third law to calculate the mass of the black hole in the centre of the Milky Way. Included is an online video that discusses what is inside a black hole. Equations and physical terms are introduced and discussed. Students are tasked...

This resource presents some real seismic data recorded before a volcanic eruption and allows students to locate some of the resulting earthquakes by use of graphs and maps.

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This resource, produced by SEPNet and Queen Mary University of London, uses Lego to represent the building blocks of matter. Different colour and size Lego bricks are assigned to protons, neutrons and electrons. Fusion is shown by joining bricks together and fission by breaking large collections of bricks apart....

This book looks at several aspects of flight:

* Falling through the air

* Parachutes

* Flight

* Forces for flight

* Control in the air

* Space flight

Flight was one of the Science at Work series. All the booklets in the series were highly illustrated with practical...

This Catalyst article explores how high-speed photography can reveal how mosquitoes can keep dry while flying in the rain.

To find out how mosquitoes survive impacts with raindrops, a group of engineers from Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) developed a system which allowed them to photograph collisions...

This is one of a series of resources from the IET designed around the theme of the future of flight with the purpose of developing pupils knowledge and skills in science, design technology, engineering and mathematics. 

In this activity pupils calculate the amount of energy needed to launch a space...

This sub-collection includes shorter activities which can make effective starter and plenary activities, helping students to engage and further their understanding. The resources are:  

• Mr Zippy's Trainers: This brings together the ideas of friction, air resistance and materials using clear language...

What is the perfect curve of a ball’s trajectory, what must the ideal turf be like, and...

From the Institute of Physics, this resource provides extensive teacher guidance and suggested classroom activities to support the teaching of:

* Resultant force sets acceleration
* Accumulating changes velocity and displacement
* Measures of 'quantity of motion'
* Force pairs replace...

Produce by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, this booklet provides a brief overview of Newton’s law of gravitation, speed, distance and time, standard form and cosmological units. A description of Newton’s law of gravitation is supported by an online video that discusses the end of the Universe. This is followed by...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Describe the effect of a resultant force on objects of different mass.
• Describe the relationship between the resultant force on an object and its acceleration.
• Explain the...