Time and Space Scheme of Work

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Lesson Order

  • 3-TAS-01 Gravitation
  • 3-TAS-02 Solar System, Seasons and Tides
  • 3-TAS-03 How Did We Get Here?
  • 3-TAS-04 What is the Time?
  • 3-TAS-05 Sundials and Reactions
  • 3-TAS-06 Time Machine=Topics covered:=
  • Gravitation and its role in celestial mechanics.
  • The main features of the solar system.
  • Cosmogony; the Big Bang and Universe's earliest moments.
  • Chronometry and the evolution of human timekeeping.

Primary "Features"

Alien Planet Project

  • A long-form open ended project that asks pupils to create an alien race and their local celestial environment. Pupils will consider issues such as the role that the strength of a planet's gravitational field plays in the morphology of its inhabitants; or how having two or more suns would affect an orbiting planet's orbit and environment.

Time Machine

  • Is an open-ended problem-solving exercise designed for a double lesson. Pupils construct a Rube Goldberg machine to measure a period of one minute. Prizes are awarded to those pupils who come closest to 60 seconds.