Downloadable resources and worksheets at the bottom of the page.
Padlet link click here
Lesson Ideas  Stargazing Live KS2 Lesson Plans - wot I wrote! here  Mariam "Al-Astrolabiya" Al-Ijliya, the astrolabe maker, features in this great video on Islamic inventions from The Golden Age. This can be used with the Muslim Space Science powerpoint and the writing frame below. Websites  LIVE streaming video from the International Space Station. (Sometimes you can even hear them talking!) ISS Passes To find out times you can see the International Space Station over the UK go to Chris Hadfield's Space Oddity video from the ISS  Why don't eclipses happen every full moon?  Stellarium Free planetarium software to download and use here  Neave Online Planetarium Not as pretty as Stellarium but simpler, with no installing - here.  View and customise images of the Moon from the Earth here. Instructions on using Fourmilab here View and customise images of the Earth from space here. - (You can even do the phases of the Earth!) | Songs See the Phases of the Moon rap in the videos section below. P.E.  Great resources to help KS2 'Train Like an Astronaut'.  Some very good animations and explanations at the Children's University site here  | Questions  Some great questions (and answers) about space here The Seasons  Why is it warmer in the summer? A good explanation of the seasons from NASA. Here  A great video montage of the changing seasons from the BBC Children's Books  By Robert E Wells The best book on space ever! Non-fiction but a very readable format.  Oscar and the Moth. By Geoff Waring In which the moth teaches Oscar that the sun only appears to move across the sky. Actually it is the Earth spinning.  George's Secret Key to the Universe. By Lucy and Stephen Hawking - Yes, him! Great chapter book for UKS2.  The Time and Space of Uncle Albert By Russell Stannard A great book introducing UKS2 children to the concepts of relativity Papa, please get the moon for me. By Eric Carle. - KS1 See the video on this page. Other Books How to catch a star. By Oliver Jeffers |
Video
Phases of the Moon Rap
The much loved rap video - Thanks to Mr Hewitt for the tip.
The relative sizes of the planets and stars
The planets of the Solar System rap
1001 Inventions
Mariam "Al-Astrolabiya" Al-Ijliya, the astrolabe maker, features in this great video on Islamic inventions from The Golden Age. This can be used with the Muslim Space Science powerpoint and the writing frame below.
Felix Baumgartner's record breaking freefall from the edge of space
Star trails that show the Earth is rotating
Heliocentric and geocentric models of space explained - (identifying scientific evidence)
BBC Stargazing Live Videos
Series 2 of Stargazing included some excellent Class Challenge videos aimed at KS2 and the brilliant Little Stargazing series aimed at EYFS but still good at KS1. You can find them all here.
This is the best activity for explaining the Phases of the Moon. The Moon on a stick video!
For more Stargazing videos and animations for KS1 and KS2 and animations click here.
BBC Little Stargazing
More Video
Papa, please get the moon for me. A story by Eric Carle. - KS1
This is a time lapse film of 24 hours taken from the International Space Station.
Dara O'Biarian on a Zero G flight.
Useful for explaining why astronauts are often weightlessness in space even though there is gravity.
Watch 200 balls and 30 teachers on a zero G flight.
Focussing the sun using a hand lens.
Useful for explain seasons.
Downloadable Resources
