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How do stars begin? What are constellations and galaxies? What is the best way to look at stars? Galaxies & Stars offers a look at the mysteries of the night sky through exciting facts and beautiful photography.
Find out how galaxies formed, how fast they're flying and what happens when they collide. And with plenty of activities included along the way, you can try making a universe balloon or swirling up your own galaxies...
Galaxy statistics
Produced by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, this teacher led booklet gives instructions on using the GalaxyZoo website to investigate the different types of galaxies in the Universe. It uses the context of galaxy classification to develop analysis and statistical skills and requires that the students have access...
Galaxy Zoo and the Universe
These two activities, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, involve using the website Galaxy Zoo to classify five samples of ten galaxies. The results are recorded in a table and presented in the form of a bar chart for each sample. These can be drawn on paper or plotted using...
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Galileo the scientific parrot
This video demonstrates that objects accelerate towards the ground at the same rate when in a vacuum. Acceleration due to gravity is constant for all objects.
These fascinating instruments work on the principle that liquids change density with temperature, discovered by Italian astronomer Galileo in the 17th Century.
As the liquid in the...
Galileo's projectile model
This resource is from a collection of Nuffield Maths resources exploring dynamics. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in GCE A level. The resources typically include slide shows to introduce the topics, student sheets and teacher notes, as well as other relevant resources.
This resource is a practical...
This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.