Well I have now received images of two planets from the Bradford Robotic Telescope; Mars and Jupiter. Here is a great chance to compare the size of these planets in these photographs with those found on the NASA website http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/about/, along with other images that are available through google searches. Here is an image taken from NASA’s casini spacecraft, rather different […]
Well here are my seven images of the moon. There are a variety of teaching ideas that could be developed from them and you will notice that not all of the phase has been captured. I have organised another week of observing. I had also ordered an image with a short exposure time. This image of the […]
I am in the process of gathering together a variety of resources for teaching this topic. I also hope to include some examples of children’s work. Here is a PowerPoint presentation showing the phases of the moon. This was shown to the children and they would record each phase in their science books. However, rather than just […]
Whilst covering a CPD course on primary science last year, a teacher attending believed that the topic of Space was more likely to involve information gathering and teacher imparting knowledge, rather than hands on practical science. Having taught this subject quite a bit in my career, this is not a view that I hold and […]
