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Students will measure the Earth?s circumference based on Eratosthenes? experiment, which he carried out at 3rd century B.C.

Students will measure the Earth’s circumference based on Eratosthenes’ experiment, which he carried out at 3rd century B.C.

Explore the lifecycle of stars, using an interactive web-app showing animations of how stars change over the course of their lives.

Explore the lifecycle of stars, using an interactive web-app showing animations of how stars change over the course of their lives.

The Earth is warm because energy created in the core of the Sun is able to travel from the Sun’s Core to its surface, and then shine through space all the way to Earth. As it travels, the light is transformed from deadly high-energy particles to the nice warm light that keeps us alive. In this lesson, we will discuss the primary ways energy is transported: convection, conduction, and radiation.

Students visit a river near their school and play a game that will help them to learn more on the organisms that live in the water. Through this activity the students learn about the importance of the river, take photos of the ecosystem, recognise the human intervention. The central part of this activity allows students to collect identify and measure small animals that could be used as markers for the quality of the environment and give them a simple indicator of environmental quality of a specific site.