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How did the Solar System form?
A classroom activity in which students learn about the main steps in the formation of our Solar System by completing a crossword and creating their own comic strip.
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Shadows On Other Worlds
Join the astronomers at the Royal Observatory Greenwich as they go on an adventure to discover what shadows look like on other worlds.
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Newton's Laws of Motion
Join our Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they go on an epic journey to find out how Newton's Laws of Motion work in space. Buckle your seatbelts, you're in for an adventure!
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Alien worlds and the Doppler effect
In this video, Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomer Radmila demonstrates how the Doppler effect can be applied to finding planets orbiting distant stars in our galaxy called exoplanets. She carries out a short demo from which data can be collected and analysed and explains how these techniques can be applied to light and the hunt for exoplanets.
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Collisions and Explosions in the Universe
On the smallest to the largest scales, collisions and explosions happen all over our Universe.
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Conservation of Momentum
In this practical activity students explore how momentum is conserved when two objects collide.
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Measuring the Universe
This video explains how we can measure the distance to near and far objects in the universe using parallax, 'standard candles' and the Doppler effect.
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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.
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Diversity Art and Citizenship: Black Histories
Embark on new perspectives of the past and unpack our fascinating shared Black British History for your pupils.
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Ted asks: How do you build a rocket?
Join the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s very own Ted, along with new friends Pip and Cub, to learn all about different materials and how to build a rocket!