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Solar System Holiday
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.
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Looking for Jupiter
A classroom activity to accompany the video 'Looking for Jupiter', using Stellarium software.
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Exploring moons
Our Moon is just one of many moons in the solar system. Join Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they explore some of the different properties and characteristics of a few weird and interesting moons orbiting around the other planets.
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Seeing the Invisible
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.
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Solar System in a box
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.
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Black Tudors and the Sea
A resource pack full of objects, paintings and archival sources plus classroom activities and background information. This pack explores the stories of Black Tudors such as John Blanke, Diego, Jacques Francis and Cattelena of Almondsbury.
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Gallery trails
Download our gallery trails to support discussion and idea development in the National Maritime Museum and Cutty Sark. Printed trails are also available to pick up on arrival.
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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.
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Members' Lecture: Pirate Queens
Dr Rebecca Simon delves deeper into the lives of two of the most infamous female pirates, Anne Bonny and Mary Read, who terrorised the Caribbean in and around Jamaica