Although not an activity based around a particular area of science or astronomy, this section of the website has a variety of image analysis tools that you can download and use. This section may be of benefit to both students and teachers in developing image analysis skills.
This page contains a number of useful utilities that may be of use in a number of activities, projects and observing programmes. Utilities include observation planners, sidereal clocks and calculators for twilight at different telescope sites.
This page contains a downloadable Excel program to illustrate orbital motion.
In this project you image a number of galaxies and comment on the features visible in them. You will then make various quantitative measurements of the galaxy, and finally, classify the galaxies according to Hubble's galaxy classification.
This basic activity examines the surface brightness of a disc galaxy (lenticular or spiral) to see if it decreases exponentially with distance outside of the central bulge. A specially written spreadsheet enables this to be done easily.
This is a straightforward project to image a number of interacting galaxies in colour, and then to identify different features visible in the images.
This page contains worksheets based around Physics and the Faulkes Telescopes. You would possibly find these questions useful for revision at Key Stage 4 and as a slightly more involved and interesting alternative to some standard type of physics questions that may have no obvious link to something students are familiar with.
This page contains a cross-curricular activity based around the idea of spirals being in our everyday lives, written by an FT user and high school teacher.
This page contains downloadable worksheets containing physics-based questions on the module, 'Light and Optics'. They are aimed at Key Stage 3 Students, but have also been split into 'Introductory' and 'Advanced' to enable all abilities of KS3 students to use them.
On this page there are a variety of worksheets based around the topic of asteroids, comets, NEOs and impacts. These worksheets can be downloaded and printed out for use in the classroom or at home.
Programme Leaders: Sarah Roberts (Faulkes Telescope Project, Cardiff University), Paul Roche (Faulkes Telescoe Project, Cardiff University
Introduction
The M87 Jet project consists of making a colour image of the giant elliptical galaxy, M87, and using SalsaJ to measure how far its jet extends in space.
Key Stage 3
Key Stage 3 Activities
Asteroids, NEOs and Impacts
On this page there are a variety of worksheets based around the topic of asteroids, comets, NEOs and impacts. These worksheets can be downloaded and printed out for use in the classroom or at home.
Light and Optics
This page contains downloadable worksheets containing physics-based questions on the module, 'Light and Optics'. They are aimed at Key Stage 3 Students, but have also been split into 'Introductory' and 'Advanced' to enable all abilities of KS3 students to use them.
Spirals and the Faulkes Telescopes
This page contains a cross-curricular activity based around the idea of spirals being in our everyday lives, written by an FT user and high school teacher.
Physics and the Faulkes Telescopes
This page contains worksheets based around Physics and the Faulkes Telescopes. You would possibly find these questions useful for revision at Key Stage 4 and as a slightly more involved and interesting alternative to some standard type of physics questions that may have no obvious link to something students are familiar with.
Observing Interacting Galaxies
This is a straightforward project to image a number of interacting galaxies in colour, and then to identify different features visible in the images.
Surface Brightness of Galaxies
This basic activity examines the surface brightness of a disc galaxy (lenticular or spiral) to see if it decreases exponentially with distance outside of the central bulge. A specially written spreadsheet enables this to be done easily.
Measuring and Classifying Galaxies
In this project you image a number of galaxies and comment on the features visible in them. You will then make various quantitative measurements of the galaxy, and finally, classify the galaxies according to Hubble's galaxy classification.
Image Analysis Tools
Although not an activity based around a particular area of science or astronomy, this section of the website has a variety of image analysis tools that you can download and use. This section may be of benefit to both students and teachers in developing image analysis skills.
Measuring M87
Programme Leaders: Sarah Roberts (Faulkes Telescope Project, Cardiff University), Paul Roche (Faulkes Telescoe Project, Cardiff University
Introduction
The M87 Jet project consists of making a colour image of the giant elliptical galaxy, M87, and using SalsaJ to measure how far its jet extends in space.
