Earth and Space

Demonstration: teaching about comets? Bring them to life in class with this memorable demonstration!

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Demonstration: a demonstration of epicyclic motion.

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Demonstration: making a model that shows the apparent motion of the Sun and stars around the Earth.

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Class practical: Tracking the motion of the Sun through the sky for a day, month or year.

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Class practical: observations of the stars, planets and the Moon for students to make.

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Demonstration: a home-made planetarium.

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Demonstration: the apparent motion of the Sun and planets around the Earth, including epicyclic motion.

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Demonstration: simple model to demonstrate the ‘flattening’ of the poles as the Earth rotates.

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Demonstration: this demonstration imitates the Earth’s precession, with a spinning flywheel ‘rocked’ by the pull of a taut...

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Demonstration: Using the model celestial sphere to show the precession of the equinoxes.

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Demonstration: to show how the spin axis of the Earth rotates or precesses.

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Demonstration: using a scale drawing to predict the time for a satellite close to the Earth. The results can later be compared...

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