Observatory class trip!

P4 visited the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh today!

They saw a telescope in the Victorian telescope dome, which astronomer’s use to look at the night sky.

The astronomer's chair!
They experimented with different types of lenses and properties of light.

experimenting with different lenses

They handled different meteorites and tektites!

They handled different meteorites and tektites!

If you were looking for a meteorite, what would you look for?

(clue – think about the properties!)

8 thoughts on “Observatory class trip!”

  1. Yes you would because it would have burned up as it came through our atmosphere.
    What else would you look for?

  2. Leah – What do you mean you look weird, I hadn’t noticed 🙂

    Cara and Zoe good answers!

    Miss Razzaq – I’m not sure – your questions are challenging!

  3. egypt

    egypt has a lot of gold.

    egypt had a lot of king’s like tutinkahum.

    the king’s were called pharoes.

    important corps were berried under the pyramids.

    the pharoeh often married close female relatives such as his sister or sister in law.

    more than 7000 years ago, people from africa arrived in central egypt.

    the history of egypt started more than 5000 years ago

    the 3 pyramids at the town of Giza are more than 4,500 years old

    the ancient egyptians worshipped more than 1000 gods and goddesses.

    a god was normaly shown as a half animal, animal or half human

    they started building pyramids between 2696 and 1550 BC

    the river nile used to flood its banks every july

    the main transport egyptians used were boats accross the river nile.

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