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Graham Coleman - classroom projects

Graham Coleman is a maths teacher at Wymondham College, near Norwich. As well as teaching mathematics he also has a keen interest in learning & teaching about space, space exploration and astronomy. He has designed these projects to develop skills in maths as well as science. Graham has loads more ideas and projects on his website: www.colmanweb.com.

Title		Summary
Kepler’s Law		Suitable for KS4 and more able KS3 pupils. This activity can encompass many areas of maths: relationships between numbers, proportion, a short investigative piece of work, squaring and cubing numbers etc. This project is based on material in the Earth and Beyond section of Sun\|trek. Teachers' Notes \| Excel Spreadsheet
Earth Ellipse		Suitable for KS4 and more able KS3 pupils. The aim is to use knowledge of proportion to find the closest and farthest distances of the Earth from the Sun. This project uses real data from the SoHO spacecraft. This project is based on material in the Earth and Beyond and Magnetic Sun sections of Sun\|trek. Teachers' Notes \| Images (word file) \| Student Brief Image Jan03 \| Image April03 \| Image July03 \| Image Oct03
International Space Station		Suitable for both KS3 or KS4. A good consolidation activity for investigating circle formula. This project is based on material in the Solar Spacecraft section of Sun\|trek. Teachers' Notes \|Teachers' pps file \| Teachers' ppt file
Orbiting the Sun		Suitable for KS3 or KS4. Consolidation of speed/distance/time formula. Pupils consider relative speeds of planets relative to their distance from Sun. This project is based on material in the Earth and Beyond section of Sun\|trek. Teachers' Notes \| Excel Spreadsheet \| Teachers' pps file miles \| Teachers' pps file km