This is a community for UK teachers within the Inspiring Science Education community. Here you can find ready-made lesson plans or share some of your own. If you're not already registered, then please register here. Lesson plans aim to effectively support all stages of the UK curricula. They provide an engaging and interactive atmosphere using interactive tools and web-based content. As a teacher you will be able to closely monitor the performance of your class as well as set homework or tasks
An ODS community dedicated to schools that already have or aspire to establishing an astronomical observatory at their school. Whether you have been using an observatory for years, or are in the process on setting-up one up, we would love to hear about the challenges you faced and the specification of the equipment you eventually decided on. So, please use this community to share ideas and offer advice to those teachers thinking of following in your footsteps.
Star In A Box offers a lesson plan for 1 or 2 hour sessions centered around the highly interactive Star In A Box application. This App simulates the evolutionary stages of stars of various masses. It is possible for students to follow changes in Temperature, Pressure and Size for various stars. Sample questions of various difficulties are provided. In this framework students will learn about the way stars are detected from Earth, about types of stars (ie various mass) and about how this affects
