Resources

Quick Links

Websites

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/dinosaurflr/shape.html
  Earth orbit, axis and wobble animation

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/java/MoonPhase.html
  Phases of the moon animation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/galilei_galileo.shtml
BBC webpage on Galileo

http://galileo.rice.edu/index.html
The Galileo Project

http://www.thinktank.ac/
Planetarium at think tank

http://www.calacademy.org/products/pendulum/index.html
Foucault’s pendulum

Useful reading

Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, translated John Willet
Methuen 1986, ISBN: 0413577805

Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel
Fourth Estate Ltd 2000, ISBN: 1857027124

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Penguin Books Ltd, ISBN: 0141183624

Make it work! Space by Andrew Haslam 
Two-Can/Watts books, ISBN: 1-85434-333-5

No Comments | Leave a comment on this
 
 

Share and Enjoy

| More
 

From The Play House Blog

Next year’s primary tours now available!

June 14th, 2010

We’ve now planned all the Foundation and Primary tours for the next academic year, including some exciting new projects and the return of some old favourites. For Early Years Just imagine… is an innovative new Early Years programme that is being developed through a partnership between The Play House and Birmingham Rep.  A series of story-making sessions [...]

Related Projects

Bag of Beans SUMMER 2011: Jack & the Beanstalk, Years 3 & 4
Spinning a Yarn SPRING 2011: Emperor's New Clothes for Years 3 & 4