all picks
Make models of space exploration craft. Rated easy to challenging, some are even edible.
Use this video to explore the risk of aateroid impact, comets and what we learnt from the Cassini mission. There are suggestions for experiments or demonstrations and additional teaching notes about why the sky is blue that can be downloaded.
Useful background material as well as info on the Solar System, planets, phases of the moon... presented in an entertaining and accessible style.
A Blockbusters quiz about the Earth and Solar System.
Get pupils to play around with this interactive demo to see how the Earth moves around the Sun. Can they describe what is going on with the Moon?
An interactive activity to help children learn about the Earth, Sun and Moon.
A Blockbusters quiz about the Sun, Moon, Earth.
An excellent animation that shows the scale of the Universe
A wealth of resources about the Earth, Moon, Solar System and Universe
Use this video to explore the science behind our solar system, and how astronomers are exploring its boundaries. There are suggestions for experiments or demonstrations and additional teaching notes about eclipses that can be downloaded.
A very good animation that explains how eclipses happen
A range of activities for teaching Earth in Space, seismology, and the structure of the Earth.
An excellent interactive animation that show the effect of impact angle, speed and type of material on the size of an impact crater.
The BBC's extremely rich solar system site, with lots of info on the sun, planets, asteroids etc., lovely photos and games including a solar system jigsaw
Solar system pages from rich kids' astronomy website. Includes information about our moon and other planets' satellites, also comets and asteroids, also a Make a Solar System game
Homepage of the SETI Research Institute, giving lots of details about the search for extraterrestrial life. The interactive game mentioned in the curriculum notes seems to have disappeared, however.
An excellent, comprehensive and rich astronomy site for children with information, resources and games on a wide variety of topics. Activities for a variety of ages & levels including primary school. Adverts can be annoying.
A series of interactive pages with explanations of how telescopes have developed from the 1600's to the present day, with supporting pages on the underlying science concepts.
Podcasts, articles, interviews, answers to your questions on a wide variety of topics.
A School Physics site with information about comets, eclipses, tides and much more.
This website allows students to learn about the phases of the moon independantly. Students download a Word document and use the embedded video clips and links to answer the questions on the sheet.
Java based animation explaining the phases of the Moon.
Pick your nearest world city (or one that takes your fancy) to create a customisable sky map at that location.
Interesting and accessibly written site from the US public TV programme NOVA about the origin of the moon, giving the main theories considered.
An animation of day and night
An animation that shows the phases of the Moon and why we see them