School teaching classes and university guest lecturing
School presentations and enrichment courses
Our astronomer is available to give entertaining and educational talks on various aspects of the sun and the asteroids. He has talked, and taught, in schools in both England and Scotland. He is available to give one-off end-of-term events, motivational speech-day talks, specific curriculum topic talks, or a short course as part of the school enrichment programme.
We will only charge £30 (schools) plus reasonable travel and materials expenses for one-off presentations. Please contact us for prices for enrichment courses (these are dependent upon the scope and scale of the enrichment you may have in mind)
Topics typically available for presentation include:
School level
Follow your dreams to the stars.
Is space infiti
Lunacy - the Moon and how it affects the Earth
Higher Education level
Topics and classes will be taught at the median level of students’ abilities which will be discussed and agreed beforehand with the course coordinator or class teacher / lecturer.
Our astronomer holds enhanced DBS certification.
Please contact us to discuss or arrange a booking.
Our astronomer is available to give entertaining and educational talks on various aspects of the sun and the asteroids. He has talked, and taught, in schools in both England and Scotland. He is available to give one-off end-of-term events, motivational speech-day talks, specific curriculum topic talks, or a short course as part of the school enrichment programme.
We will only charge £30 (schools) plus reasonable travel and materials expenses for one-off presentations. Please contact us for prices for enrichment courses (these are dependent upon the scope and scale of the enrichment you may have in mind)
Topics typically available for presentation include:
School level
- Where on Earth is the Earth? – our place in the Universe
- Asteroids and the death of the dinosaurs
- Mars missions; Space weather and the effects of the Sun, on Earth and astronauts
- Mars missions; Space weather and the effects of the Sun, on Earth and astronauts
- The physics of the Sun (Highers/’A’ level)
- An introduction to applied maths in astronomy (Highers/’A’ level)
- To infinity and beyond! And yes, we can go beyond
- Space, the final frontier - but where's the door to get out there?
- Follow your dreams to the stars - An astronomer's journey
Follow your dreams to the stars.
Is space infiti
Lunacy - the Moon and how it affects the Earth
Higher Education level
- An introduction to orbital dynamics (0rbital elements; Newtonian forces; orbital velocity and acceleration)
- Distance and scale within astronomy (units; stellar parallax; modulus equation, Cepheids; supernovae)
- Asteroid orbits: Identification and evolution through gravitational, non-gravitational and collisional forces (types; Tisserand criteria; collision dynamics; Yarkovsky effect)
- The nature and reality of asteroids (nomenclature and identification; classifications, families)
- Stellar structure (equations of state; hydrostatic equilibrium; pressure / density and introduction to polytropes)
- Solar energy (Kelvin-Helmholtz; fusion processes; energy transport; radiation and convection regions)
Topics and classes will be taught at the median level of students’ abilities which will be discussed and agreed beforehand with the course coordinator or class teacher / lecturer.
Our astronomer holds enhanced DBS certification.
Please contact us to discuss or arrange a booking.
