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Did you know that all gadgets and games have a life cycle? That's what we call the stages from their design, manufacture, and sale to their use, maintenance, and disposal.

This book explains what happens...

Gaia and the Killer Asteroids

This animated clip explains how the Apollo and Aten asteroids have Earth crossing orbits and they are therefore the most probable groups of asteroids to hit the Earth. The Gaia spacecraft, at the 2nd Lagrangian Point is at a better vantage point than viewing these asteroids from the Earth.

Gaia's Mission: Solving the Celestial Puzzle

This film documents the mission to create the largest, most-accurate, map of the Milky Way in three dimensions, which will revolutionise our understanding of the galaxy and the universe beyond. On 19th December 2013, a rocket blasted into the sky from a launch site in French Guiana and travelled 1.5 million km to...

Gaia's place in space

Gaia is a European Space Agency satellite, mapping one billion stars in the Milky Way. 

This worksheet uses the context of the orbit of the Gaia spacecraft to look at circular motion and the gravitational force between two bodies.  The content is suitable for GCSE and A-level Physics.

A teacher's...

GAIM Activities: Investigations

GAIM Activities are open-ended tasks where achievements in using and applying mathematics can be assessed alongside content. In the investigations students explore pure mathematics.

GAIM provides teachers with 80 Activities (40 Investigations and 40 Practical Problems) as a resource for teaching and...

GAIM Activities: Practical Problems

GAIM Activities are open-ended tasks where achievements in using and applying mathematics can be assessed alongside content. In the practical problems students apply mathematics to real-life situations.

GAIM provides...

GAIM Cross Reference Guide and Record Sheets

These booklets from GAIM contains a cross referencing guide and record sheets for the GAIM activities and investigations.

Part One of the cross-referencing guide includes items from some mathematics teaching schemes...

GAIM Topic Tasks and Topic Criteria

This resource from GAIM includes the set of Topic Tasks and Topic Criteria, which complete the assessment material for this scheme.

Topic...

Taking account of new National Curriculum Attainment Targets, this series is a complete teacher assessment scheme for Key Stage 3 and 4 covering Levels 2-10 of all National Curriculum Attainment Targets.

It offers assessment based on a creative approach to mathematics in the classroom. This is achieved...

Taking account of new National Curriculum Attainment Targets, this series is a complete teacher assessment scheme for Key Stage 3 and 4 covering Levels 2-10 of all National Curriculum Attainment Targets.

It offers assessment based on a creative approach to mathematics in the classroom. This is achieved...