Click here to access the E25 Wonders and Answers doc

If you have a wonder, put it here so you can work with others to research it and find the answer. Once you have the answer, add it here to share your learning!

LT1: Challenge Questions

See if you can answer these three challenge questions, which will stretch your ability to reason and use data effectively as well as your mathematical skills.

LT1: Video clips from the BBC series, Wonders of the Universe

The BBC have produced 12 video clips from key points in Brian Cox's Wonders of the Universe. Here are just a few of them:

• the evidence of the Big Bang
• spectroscopy and how we know what stars are made of
• escaping from gravity
• why are black holes invisible?

LT1: Recommended Read - See You in the Cosmos

Thank you to Dylan ap H for recommending this book. See You in the Cosmos is Jack Cheng's first novel for young readers. It’s about an eleven-year-old boy who’s trying to launch his iPod into space. But it’s also about road trips, families, and finding love and truth and courage in the universe. There’s also a dog named Carl Sagan.

LT1: What is a nebula?

Video link recommended by our expert in astrophotography, Chris Peace (7 mins)

LT1: Time lapse astronomy images of the Milky Way set to music - very relaxing!

Video link recommended by our expert in astrophotography, Chris Peace (6 mins)

LT1: Hubble find the most distant star: Icarus

Video link recommended by our expert in astrophotography, Chris Peace (1 min)

LT1: Timelapse future

This experience takes you on a journey to the end of time, trillions of years into the future, to discover what the fate of our planet and our universe may ultimately be.

Thank you to Dylan S for recommending this video (30 mins)

LT1: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

Is there life out there? The SETI Institute was created to "explore, understand and explain the origin and nature of life in the universe and the evolution of intelligence." Take a look at this website to find out more!

LT1: Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw answer questions on the Big Bang Theory

• Is there a centre of the universe?
• If there exists some particle that can travel faster than light, then surely there should be a way of sending information into the past?
• Is the €75bn spent on the Large Hadron Collider worth the investment?
• Can science save the economy?

LT1: What do we know about the Big Bang?

This website from NASA explains a little of what we know already.

The BBC Bitesize website also has a simple explanation of what evidence we have to support this theory.

LT1: From the smallest to the biggest: quarks to the Universe

Have you ever wondered what the smallest thing known to man is? Or the biggest? Listen as Morgan Freeman takes you through a journey of scale, from quarks to the Universe itself. Thank you to Mrs Duffield for sharing this video! (9 mins)

LT2: Greta Thunberg's TED talk about why we need to act right now to deal with climate change.

What are your thoughts on this? Can a 16 year old girl make a difference?

LT2: WONDER - What if humans had never existed?

This article from New Scientist magazine begins to discuss the potential answer to Ava's wonder: What if humans had never existed?

Also check out this article about how large mammal distribution may have been different if humans had never existed.

LT2: WONDER - what is biomimicry?

This video from the Biomimicry Institute addresses Florence's wonder by explaining how we can use the marvels of natural engineering to inspire our own engineering design and create "sustainable solutions to human challenges" (2 mins)

LT2: What if plastic was never invented?

Plastic is currently often seen as a negative material by the media, but there are positives as well as negatives. Explore this video to see how both sides of the argument. Thank you to Cerys for suggesting this video!

LT2: Eco-School accreditation

To learn more about what we could do at XP East to look after our planet, visit the Eco-Schools website. Eco Crew will be relaunched later this term!

Distance-time graphs

A very brief overview of how to draw a d-t graph, then explanation as to how to find the speed using the gradient (3 mins).

What is gravity? What is microgravity?

Find out here (9 mins)