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Students create their own timeline of the evolution of the Universe.

Students use special relativity to calculate the effects of a black hole on time. Accompanies the video 'What's inside a black hole?'.

Students look at the behaviour of gravity with distance to calculate the gravitational forces between people and celestial objects. Accompanies the video 'How will the Universe end?'.

In this classroom activity, students will use bearings to plot constellations. They are then asked to think about what they represent.

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.

A classroom activity to accompany the video 'Story of Stars' about classifying the different types of stars in the Universe.

In this activity students use star trails to calculate the true rotation period of the Earth. Students can make their own star trails inside the classroom - watch the video 'Making star trails'.

This resource contains fact files about the Sun, the planets and Pluto along with a song that follows Ted and Plant on their adventures around the Solar System. The fact files and song can be used together or separately and are designed to introduce students to some of the main bodies in our solar system and what they are like.

Imagine what it would be like to have super powers and see the invisible - sounds pretty fun doesn't it? Join the Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they explore the science behind some seemingly invisible and sneaky forces in space.

In this video, Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomer Brendan recreates the Solar System in plasticine form to demonstrate the science of light and dark, and light and shadow, in space. Students can recreate their very own Solar System in a Box.