Your Research Challenges
Music of the Sphere - Seeing inside the Sun
Scientist:
Bernhard Fleck
Challenge: Explore the inside of the Sun
using sound waves.
Science
learning objectives: longitudinal nature
of sound waves, wave equation, refraction, Doppler shift.
Maths
learning objectives: speed, distance,
time formula; processing data to create & interpret graphs using ICT
Scientist:
Danielle Bewsher
Challenge: Scale and compare images of different events on the Sun
Science
learning objectives: relative size of Sun
and Earth, standard form notation
Maths
learning objectives: measuring and
estimating measurements, enlargement and scale factors, writing numbers in and
interpreting standard form.
Scientist:
Jack Ireland
Challenge: Discover if magnetic waves can
transfer enough energy to heat the atmosphere
Science
learning objectives: magnetic fields, wave equation, energy
Scientist:
Helen Mason
Challenge: To use information from ultraviolet light to make a temperature map of
the solar atmosphere
Science
learning objectives: heat and
temperature, ions, atomic structure
Scientist:
Terri Kucera
Challenge: Design the orbits of a twin spacecraft mission
Science
learning objectives: orbital periods
Maths
learning objectives: using and applying
equations from other subject areas to solve real life problems, understanding
& drawing ellipses, spatial thinking (2D); squaring, cubing and square-roots and
cube-roots.
Scientists:
Peter Gallagher, Ryan Milligan, James McAteer
Challenge: Measure the velocity of massive ejections from the Sun.
Science
learning objectives: speed equation,
velocity, distance, acceleration, movement graphs
Maths
learning objectives: measuring, scaling,
speed/distance/time formula, converting between minutes and fractions-of-hours,
dealing with large numbers including large numbers written in standard form,
drawing & interpreting graphs (using ICT) from real life data.