www.atoptics.co.uk Atmospheric Optics is a stunning collection of pictures that illustrate the strange and beautiful visual phenomena created by light, weather, and our atmosphere. Check out photos and explanations for everything from rainbows and ice halos to nacreous clouds and anti-crepuscular rays.
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Citizen Science
There’s a great project on planetfour.org where you can contribute to some real-life Martian research! Follow the links and you get allocated a patch of Mars to explore and you can help the researchers by marking interesting features on the surface. Who knows, you might find something never seen before by human eyes! I can’t put it Full Article…
What is it?
Describe a material in 140 characters on a microblogging site such as Twitter and see if others can guess what the material is without mentioning the word or Chemical symbol. Could do it in groups and see who get the most right. With younger primary children this could mean giving them some materials such as Full Article…
Space and size
Check out this amazing presentation for demonstrating orders of magnitude or talking about the size of the universe! It was created by Cary and Michael Huang who have generously agreed that Taccle teachers can use it AND translate it into their own language. If anyone is interested in doing this let me know and I’ll Full Article…
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