The UnischooLabS website is aimed at teachers and anyone who wishes to use Universities' laboratories in their classrooms or for their personal interest. It includes information related to the project which has now finished, its progress throughout it's duration, access to the Toolkit and all related events.
Vernier LabQuest 2 is a standalone interface used to collect sensor data with its built-in graphing and analysis application. The large, high-resolution touch screen makes it easy and intuitive to collect, analyze, and share data from experiments. Its wireless connectivity encourages collaboration and personalized learning. You can also use LabQuest 2 as a computer interface usingLoggerProsoftwarefor advanced analysis and video features.
This activity makes students realize how bigthese differences are and how important it is to choose an adequate scale for sizes, distancesand revolution periods, to represent the Solar System. With 'Eyes on the Solar System' softwareand a hands-on model, students can simulate the position of the planets on the Solar System andunderstand why, as seen from earth, the planets change the place in the sky throughout the night.
Agent Exoplanet teaches students about exoplanets, allows students to follow the scientific process for learning about exoplanets and helps them understand the properties of exoplanets. Agent Exoplanet is entirely online. The additional activity also requires use of Excel to plotdata, and additional online labs.
Take a look at the lesson/education scenarioAgent Exoplanetfor ideas to use in the classroom
The project Sun4All aims to promote science in general and astronomy in particular. The project is based on an asset of over 30000 images of the Sun (spectroheliograms) that are kept at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Coimbra, as result of a work of over 80 years of daily solar observations, started in 1926. This is a Sun observation collection of great scientific value.
During the year, the distance between Earth and the Sun is changing because the Earth, andother planets move in elliptical orbits. The mean distance between the Earth and the Sun,which is equivalent to approximately 150 million kilometres, called the astronomical unit. The aim is to understand what it is the solar system, enumerate the planets of the solar system, know how to use the online telescope for observing the planets of the solar system.
Learn more aboutThe 'NikolaTesla' National Distance-Learning Portal
A student friendly, versatile and powerful tool for data-collection and analysis. You can:
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium showing a realistic sky in 3D, as you would see it with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. Features include: catalogues with more than 200 million stars, constellations for 17 different cultures, images of nebulae.
Would you like to explore real images or take a guided tour around the Solar System?
With the World Wide Telescope you can access the same images used by professional astronomers in research. You can go on a guided tour to see what happens to Milky Way dust or journey two billion years in the past to view galaxy light bending.
Shooting Stars is an interactive computer simulation using calculation power of super computers.
