KS3 Learning at Home
We have cherry picked some of our most popular and closely curriculum linked activities for you to have fun with at home. Each one has been carefully created with our teacher forum so you can rest easy knowing they are top notch. We have split them into key stages and also popped the curriculum requirements in too in case that is handy for you to know.
Activities and Videos
Motion and Forces
Journey times to alien worlds
A classroom activity where students use distance, speed and time and light-years to calculate the time of travel to exoplanets.
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!
Space Physics
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.
Mission to Mars
Join Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they explore the challenges astronauts would encounter on their long journey to Mars and what it might be like to live and work on the red planet!
Landing on a Comet
In this activity students look at the relationship between mass and weight on the Earth and on a comet.
Space rocks
There are lots of names associated with space rocks, so what is the difference? Join the Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers to find out.
The history of the Universe
Students create their own timeline of the evolution of the Universe.
What's the Universe made of?
Students draw a pie chart to show the composition of the Universe.
Formation of the Solar System
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.
Collisions and Explosions in the Universe
On the smallest to the largest scales, collisions and explosions happen all over our Universe.
Our Mighty Moon
Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers explain how solar and lunar eclipses occur and they learn a bit more about how the Moon produces the tides on the Earth.
Curriculum Requirements
Is there anything else we can do?
We have a huge selection of videos, podcasts and buckets more activities to try at home! We are adding to the pages all the time so don't forget to check back and see what is new.
Learning resources
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