This learning activity, ‘Shapes in Life’, introduces a variety of solids, including both polyhedra such as cubes and closed surfaces such as spheres. Students are asked to identify both two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes in photographs of everyday objects. The accompanying teaching notes provide suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Follow That Thread’, explains how to make curve pictures by drawing lines on shapes and threading wool or string on cards. The lines create the envelopes of conic sections: ellipses, parabolas, circles, and hyperbolas. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Getting Round to It’, explores the difference between a circle and an ellipse. It shows students how to draw the shapes on concrete using a skipping rope and chalk. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This hands-on activity, ‘Gravity and Orbits 1’ asks students to draw the orbit of a planet around the sun and investigate the relationship between distance and the force of gravity.
This hands-on activity, ‘Gravity and Orbits 2’ asks students to build a model of the sun-earth system and explore the effect of the earth’s gravitational pull on the sun.
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