Resources

Apresentação sobre as constelações do Zodíaco e a relação com os signos astrológicos.

A atividade usa os signos astrológicos para explorar o céu noturno e fragilidades da Astrologia.

Presentation on the constellations of the zodiac.

A presentation that explains why we see different constellations in different times of year. All the images were taken from Stellarium.

Students must determine the distance to the Large Magallenic Cloud using light curves of Classical Cepheid stars.

Article from Science in School’s issue 25 (Winter 2012) that describes “(…) how you and your students can use mathematics to study Jupiter’s moons”, specifically the mathematical equation of the simple harmonic motion (SHM).

"How do we know what stars are made of?" is a presentation that explains how it’s possible to determine what are stars made of using their spectra and spectral lines.

A presentation that shows the motion of the sky and explains day and night. All the images used were obtained from Stellarium.

"Northern Star" is a presentation tha explains how to identify this star and the cardinal direction north.

Science in School article about a project developed to determine the Sun's rotation period.

Sheets with the distance between two foci to draw ellipses with the same eccentricity as the telluric planets' orbits using a 20 cm string in a loop.

"Where do the elements come from?" is a presentation that explains the origins of almost all chemical element.