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How do we know that the Earth is rotating?

  • How Do We Know the Earth is Rotating?

  • Location: Lifelab
  • Duration: 1 hour
  • Availability: On demand
  • Age Ranges(s): 16+, KS3, KS4, Upper KS2
  • Minimum Number: 12
  • Maximum Number: 36

Many Science Centres have a Foucault’s pendulum but without some investigative work with a small turntable, a pendulum on a stand and a model person, the experiment is incomprehensible to most students. With the appropriate background in place, setting up a giant pendulum then watching it appear to move is a ‘Eureka!’ moment. This workshop can be combined with an education planetarium session.

 

 

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