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Lesson Ideas Stargazing Live KS2 Lesson Plans - wot I wrote! here Make an Earth, Sun and Moon model. See worksheet 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. 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. Fourmilab Site 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 This here animation is particularly good BBC Science Clips The Interactive for Earth, Sun and Moon is here. The Interactive about Light and Shadows is here. This one has a good section on how shadows appear to move - Click on the 'Outside' button. Web Cams View web cams to learn about night and day and the Earth spinning on its axis.Hong Kong here Middle School in Macau here Times Square New York here Sydney Harbour here London, Abby Road here Or find other web cams here More Websites Brilliant interactive Solar System 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 Is a blue whale the biggest thing there is? 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 |