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Online FREE Secondary Teacher Training Course
The science learning team have teamed up with FutureLearn once again, to create an online course designed specifically for teachers and teachers in training at secondary level.
Key Stage:
Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, GCSE, Post-16
Subject:
Astronomy, Maths, Science
Video
Reasons for the Seasons
Have you ever wondered why we have seasons? Do other planets have seasons too? To find out the answers, join the astronomers at the Royal Observatory Greenwich as they explore the reasons for the seasons!
Key Stage:
Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3
Subject:
Astronomy, Science
Classroom activity
Mission to Mars
This classroom activity is designed to test your students' creative, mathematical and literacy skills through a range of tasks that will get them to think about what it might be like to travel to Mars and then live and work on the red planet.
Key Stage:
Key Stage 2
Subject:
Astronomy, Maths, Science
Classroom activity
Make a star scope
Make your own constellations and asterisms with our star scope!
Key Stage:
Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3
Subject:
Astronomy
Video
Stars and the H-R Diagram
Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers explain how stars can be categorised and their evolution studied by tracking their movement across a very important graph in stellar evolution - the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
Key Stage:
Key Stage 4, Post-16
Subject:
Astronomy, Science
Video
Mission to Mars
Join Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they explore the challenges astronauts would encounter on their long journey to Mars and what it might be like to live and work on the red planet! 
Key Stage:
Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3
Subject:
Astronomy, Science
Classroom activity
Nuclear Fusion in Stars
In this classroom activity, students explore how stars are powered by fusion, the energy they output and why stars can't fuse the heaviest elements.
Key Stage:
Post-16
Subject:
Astronomy, Maths, Science