A key step on the journey is to move away from thinking that objects fall because they are heavy. In other words, believing...

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14

Some pupils only associate gravity with situations where something is falling.

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14

You might try using Newton's thought experiment, of throwing a ball into orbit from a huge mountain to transfer this idea that...

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14

A reference to everyday life: We get day and night so that we can sleep at night and do things in the day.

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14

When describing the motion of the Earth, be very careful to distinguish between:

Teaching Guidance 5-11 11-14

Our everyday speech and many myths and conventional drawings mislead us into thinking that we live on a stationary Earth, and...

Teaching Guidance 5-11

Children generally like to believe adults and so it is not uncommon for them to amalgamate their flat Earth model with adults'...

Teaching Guidance 5-11

A teacher was working with her Key Stage 1 class on this topic and asked them what they thought. All the children agreed with...

Teaching Guidance 5-11

Children tend to have a very crowded view of space and this is not helped by the various diagrams of the Solar System that can...

Teaching Guidance 5-11