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9-11 years old https://motivate.maths.org/content/taxonomy/term/539/all en Are we alone? https://motivate.maths.org/content/are-we-alone <p><strong>Carolin Crawford</strong>, University of Cambridge <br /><img src="http://motivate.maths.org/conferences/conf58/Images/conf_logo.jpg" alt="conference logo" hspace="7" vspace="7" align="right" /></p> <p>These resources were originally presented in connection with videoconferences in 2005.  They are now freely available to schools.</p> <p><img src="http://motivate.maths.org/conferences/conf58/Images/aliens.jpg" alt="two aliens" hspace="7" vspace="7" align="left" /></p> <p><em>(Original drawing by Danielle Stretch, University of Cambridge)</em></p> <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-pwork"><legend>Project Work</legend><div class="field field-type-link field-field-plink"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/content/design-your-own-planet-1">What will your planet be like? Where will it be? Who will live there? </a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/content/space-missions">Find out about recent space missions, or plan your own</a> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/content/escape-space">Overcoming the gravitational pull of a planet</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/content/how-many-civilisations-could-there-be">Estimate how many intelligent, communicating civilisations there might be in the Milky Way</a> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/content/life-other-planets-0">What do you think it would be like to live somewhere else in the solar system?</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/content/what-are-planets-3">What would you find if you travelled to another planet?</a> </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-add-mat"><legend>Addition Material</legend><div class="field field-type-link field-field-alink"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://motivate.maths.org/content/AreWeAlone/SolutionsHelpEscapeVelocity">Answers to the questions in "Overcoming the gravitational pull of a planet "</a> </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-tlink"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/content/solar-system-0">An introduction to Carolin Crawford's talk in the first videoconference and a survey of the solar system.</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/content/life-earth">What conditions have created life as we know it on Earth?</a> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/content/there-likely-be-life-other-rocky-planets">How do the inner planets, Mercury, Venus and Mars, match up to the conditions which we know have produced life on Earth?</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/content/gas-giants">Could there be life in the outer solar system?</a> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="https://motivate.maths.org/content/are-we-alone" target="_blank">read more</a></p> 9-11 years old Maths and science Science Astronomy Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:51:16 +0000 motivateadmin 1038 at https://motivate.maths.org/content Preliminary tasks https://motivate.maths.org/content/Robots/PreliminaryTasks <table style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8"> <tbody> <tr valign="top"> <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><span class="smalltext">Back to : <a href="../conference.php?conf_id=26">Robots Main Page</a></span> <a id="content" name="content"></a> <h1>Robots – slaves at home and at work</h1> <h2>Introduction</h2> </td></tr></tbody></table><p><a href="https://motivate.maths.org/content/Robots/PreliminaryTasks" target="_blank">read more</a></p> 9-11 years old discussion robots Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:50:44 +0000 motivateadmin 723 at https://motivate.maths.org/content Practical project work https://motivate.maths.org/content/Robots/PracticalProjectWork <table style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8"> <tbody> <tr valign="top"> <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><span class="smalltext">Back to : <a href="../conference.php?conf_id=26">Robots Main Page</a></span> <a id="content" name="content"></a> <h1>Robots – slaves at home and at work</h1> <h2>Practical Project Work on Robotics</h2> <h3>Instructions to help you build your own basic robotic unit</h3> <p>Here are instructions to make a basic unit using:</p> </td></tr></tbody></table><p><a href="https://motivate.maths.org/content/Robots/PracticalProjectWork" target="_blank">read more</a></p> 9-11 years old practical details robots Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:50:44 +0000 motivateadmin 726 at https://motivate.maths.org/content