Those of you working in what feels like a circus with your children at home, are you looking for something interesting to inspire your kids?
Here are a few links from one of our directors, Ronald Jessop, who has been home-schooling for years:
The theme here is Space and Time, of which we currently enjoy more of the latter than the former!
Some perspective on the relative sizes of the planets in our solar system:
A fascinating practical experiment to gain an understanding of how far apart the planets in our solar system really are and how slowly light actually travels when talking about those vast distances:
https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
Ronald’s favourite!
An illustration of what he calls the 5th dimension of Scale – you can zoom in until you see subatomic particles or zoom out until you see the entire known universe, with everything else in-between:
https://magnifyingtheuniverse.com/
Back on planet earth, why not take a tour of a Pharoah’s tomb:
Lastly, if you need some good old education for the week ahead, here is a platform offering live lessons for your kids to watch as well as free resources available to download: