Feb 5, 2026 | Big Idea 10, OAE, Resource
Wat makes the Earth “just right” for life? What does life need to survive? In this activity you are going to design your own alien, thinking about how life might adapt to different environments. The activity is organized in teams that will choose a different world of...
Feb 5, 2026 | Big Idea 4, OAE, Resource
Let’s learn how to break particles to study their composition with a simple device (“the accelerator”). Students will study the effect of collisions between marbles, introducing various forms of energy, such as potential, kinetic and binding energy...
Feb 5, 2026 | OAE, Resource
This activity illustrates the power of the Sun that drives a global air circulation system that is also responsible for tropical and subtropical climate zones. Through experiments, students learn how heated air rises above cool air and how a continuous heat source...
Feb 5, 2026 | Big Idea 1, OAE, Resource
With this activity, the students will learn how the Arabian sailors navigated at Sea many centuries ago, building and learning how to use a kamal, a simple tool to measure the elevations of stars and our position on Earth. This activity uses the example of the kamal...
Feb 5, 2026 | Big Idea 8, OAE, Resource
In this activity, you will learn about the dimensions of stars in comparison to the Sun with a set of polystyrene spheres. By using spheres of different colours, you will also learn about different types of stars and their evolution: from blue spheres, representing...
Feb 5, 2026 | Big Idea 1, OAE, Resource
Looking at the night sky, all civilizations (ancient and modern ones) have identified many different shapes that they have called constellations. But what are constellations? Are they formed by stars that are really near one to the other? We will learn about...
