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In this activity, students will use bearings to plot constellations. They are then asked to think about what they represent.

We know about the planets, moons and space rocks that make up our Solar System. But where did it all come from?

A classroom activity with instructions to accompany the video 'Making star trails'.

A classroom activity in which students use Hubble's law to derive the age of the Universe and consider the assumptions and sources of error associated with this calculation.

A classroom activity in which students learn how the rotation of the Sun can be measured through Doppler-shifted emission lines and estimate the errors associated with this measurement.

A classroom activity in which students learn how the rotation of the Sun can be measured through Doppler-shifted emission lines and estimate the errors associated with this measurement.

A classroom activity in which students predict and then measure the rotational velocity of material in a nearby galaxy, using their knowledge of gravitation and Doppler shifts to deduce the presence of dark matter.

A classifying and plotting activity based on the Citizen Science project 'Galaxy Zoo' which explores issues of sample size and personal bias as well as the distribution of galaxy types in the Universe.

A classroom activity exploring the changing appearance of the Moon throughout the month.

A classroom activity exploring the changing appearance of the Moon throughout the month. Suitable for advanced KS2 and all KS3 students.