Feb 5, 2026 | Big Idea 1, OAE, Resource
This activity highlights the navigational challenges in determining longitude from time measurements. Students build their own longitude clock that visualises in a simple way how to determine longitude via time measurements. They practise basic math, understanding the...
Feb 5, 2026 | Big Idea 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 Idea 7, OAE, Resource, Solar System
In this activity students will explore Mars, getting a general view of the Red planet. To do this, they will learn how scientists create and use maps reading cartographic information like legends and symbols. Using planetary maps, students will also be able to compare...
Feb 5, 2026 | Big Idea 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 Idea 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...
Feb 5, 2026 | Big Idea 1, OAE, Resource
In this hands-on activity, students will imagine themselves as a 9th century Viking who has to use the Sun to navigate across the North Sea. They will build their own navigational tool, test its functionality and simulate a voyage from southern Scandinavia to...
