11-13 years old

Getting safely to school - how risky is it?

jag55 — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:40:49 +0000

"Eating bacon sandwiches is bad for you!" Is it?

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Earth, Moon, Sun and Stars

motivateadmin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:50:57 +0000

Lisa Wright, University of Cambridge

The material linked to this webpage provides a great opportunity for students to find out about the sun, moon and earth, stars, light and gravity. There is experimental work to do, plus mathematical modelling and calculation.

Project Work

A preliminary exercise, making a model of the solar system.

What colours is ordinary white light made up of? Why do astronomers use different coloured lights to look deep into the universe?

Find out how Galileo discovered about how fast different objects fall to the ground, and try his experiments out for yourselves.

Why do we have night and day, or summer and winter (and no, it's not because the sun is further away in winter!). What are lunar eclipses?

Why is the moon sometimes big and round, and other times thin and crescent-shaped? Why can't we see it at all sometimes?

What are pulsars? Do an experiment to find out about them!

Addition Material

Other useful websites.

Answers and extra help for the problems set in the project on Galileo's experiments.

Details of the calculation of angular momentum.

Avalanches

motivateadmin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:50:48 +0000

Ian Johnston, Open University

Project Work

Triangle Game

Avalanche Experiments

Simulating an avalanche

Addition Material

Project work by Attleborough High School, Norfolk, UK

Project work by Jersey School for Girls, Jersey, UK

Project work by Harborne School, Birmingham, UK

Project work by Mondale Secondary School, Cape Town, SA

Helicopters

motivateadmin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:50:35 +0000

Jim Flood,

This resource involves making some very simple (but effective) working paper models that provide opportunities for exploring proportion and scale. Children will need to make changes to their models, guess what effect these changes will have.

Project Work

Construction of a helicopter

Helicopter activity

Transcript of Jim Flood's talk

Addition Material

Jim Flood's powerpoint presentation