You can use this activity to check pupils' existing knowledge of the daily path of the Sun and present the correct information...

Classroom Activity 11-14

This activity involves constructing a model to help explain why we have day and night.

Classroom Activity 11-14

Scientists represent their ideas using words, diagrams, symbols, charts and mathematics. The aim of this activity is to...

Classroom Activity 11-14

This is a simple but effective demonstration of the daily and annual movement of the Earth. The first activity is essential to...

Classroom Activity 11-14

This is a teacher demonstration to show the large difference in the angle of incidence of the Sun's rays between midday on 21...

Classroom Activity 11-14

This activity provides an opportunity to show that the explanation for seasons can be confirmed by experimental data gathered...

Classroom Activity 11-14

Here you can show how the top and bottom of a globe are warmed less than the parts facing the source of illumination.

Classroom Activity 11-14

Even though the Sun and Moon are such familiar objects in the night sky, many children and adults alike struggle to explain...

Physics Narrative 11-14

The cycle of day and night is caused by the rotation of the Earth as it spins on its axis once every 24 hours. Because of this...

Physics Narrative 11-14

Although the Earth spinning explanation is relatively straightforward, justifying it is not so simple. The common-sense notion...

Physics Narrative 11-14

The important point about the photographic evidence provided by a camera pointed at the Pole star is that we cannot decide...

Physics Narrative 11-14

A total eclipse of the Sun, a solar eclipse, is caused by the Moon passing between the Sun and the Earth.

Physics Narrative 11-14