Feb 5, 2026 | Big Ideia 11, Big Ideia 2, Big Ideia 4, Big Ideia 5, Big Ideia 8, IAC, Resource, Sun
Understanding solar activity is relevant because the physical phenomena that cause it cannot be studied on Earth, and also because it allows us to predict space weather. Solar storms (coronal mass ejections) carry large amounts of charged particles that form auroras...
Feb 5, 2026 | Big Ideia 11, Earth, OAE, Resource, Star
What is light pollution, what are its impacts, and how can it be mitigated? In this activity, students will build a magntidue reader with very simple materials and use it to learn how light pollution affects the visibility of stars, by making simple experimental...
Feb 5, 2026 | Big Ideia 11, OAE, Resource, Solar System
In Age that Crater! students will learn about the existence of craters on the Moon and on other planetary bodies and how they occur. They can also learn how to approximately age these craters, comparing them to other craters. This activity gives young students an...
Feb 5, 2026 | Big Ideia 11, OAE, Resource, Solar System
With this activity, stydents learn how craters are made from the impact of an asteroid hitting the Earth and the effects this can have. With a fun, simple, but quantitative experiment, they will learn how the crater size depends on the impactor mass and the impact...
Feb 5, 2026 | Big Ideia 11, OAE, Resource
In this activity, students will carry out two simple experiments to simulate the melting of land and sea ice on Earth, to understand the different effects that this melting down has on global sea levels and how it is relevant to climate change. Resource Link Access...
Feb 5, 2026 | Big Ideia 11, OAE, Resource
In this activity students simulate Earth’s behaviour with an hands-on experiment, learning how and why oceans on Earth can store heat more effectively than land, mitigating part of the global warming caused by the greenhouse effect. The activity simulates Earth’s...
