Satellite navigation is a key technology for today’s society, allowing for global navigation on land, at sea and in the air. The technology depends upon accurate atomic clocks, which help us...

Gaia is a European Space Agency satellite, mapping one billion stars in the Milky Way. 

This worksheet uses the context of the orbit of the Gaia spacecraft to look at circular motion and the gravitational force between two bodies.  The content is suitable for GCSE and A-level Physics.

A teacher's...

From ARKive, these resources help students to learn about the Galapagos Islands, their biodiversity and conservation. Through a series of activities, students look at: the scientific history and importance of the Galapagos Islands; the species that inhabit the islands including the concept of endemic species; the...

These two activities, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, involve using the website Galaxy Zoo to classify five samples of ten galaxies. The results are recorded in a table and presented in the form of a bar chart for each sample. These can be drawn on paper or plotted using...

Produced by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, this teacher led booklet gives instructions on using the GalaxyZoo website to investigate the different types of galaxies in the Universe. It uses the context of galaxy classification to develop analysis and statistical skills and requires that the students have access...

This video demonstrates that objects accelerate towards the ground at the same rate when in a vacuum.  Acceleration due to gravity is constant for all objects.

This resource is from a collection of Nuffield Maths resources exploring dynamics. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in GCE A level. The resources typically include slide shows to introduce the topics, student sheets and teacher notes, as well as other relevant resources.

This resource is a practical...

This Core Maths task investigates various aspects of gambling. Students investigate various aspects of gambling and helps develop a realistic...

Although this activity is not in the form of a lesson plan, the activity illustrates a good series of steps that students could either work through as a class, or in smaller groups/pairs. They could then be asked to pick from a selection of...

This cross-curricular activity asks children to design a game to be sold in a presentation tin, incorporating the tin into the game. The tins are all made from steel, so they are magnetic and may be printed with any design. Children can use anything you want to make the other parts of their game. It could be a game...

The Games and Activities sub-collection contains two resources with activities including modelling a lunar landscape using light and shadow and ordering things in space sequentially.