Activity Demonstration Videos
These short activity demonstration videos are intended to quickly provide teachers with a clear understanding of how each activity runs and the key concepts that are being highlighted in each activity. They are intended to be used alongside the lesson plans and associated resources, and not as a replacement. The lesson plans contain more detailed descriptions of each activity, as well as alternative implementations or extensions to the activities.
Videos are numbered according to the lesson they appear in, followed by the order in which they appear within that lesson.
Year 3 consists of two modules, Atom Frenzy, which explores what atoms are and how they make up the world around us, and Hot Stuff, which introduces the idea of phonons and how they relate to the concepts of heat. The lesson plans and associated resources for each of these modules can be found at https://www.einsteinianphysics.com/atom-frenzy/ and https://www.einsteinianphysics.com/hot-stuff/.
AF 1.1 – Making Atoms
AF 2.1 – Introducing Molecules
AF 4.1 – Introducing Magnetic Forces
AF 4.2 – Introducing Electric Forces
AF 4.3 – Lifting Things with Static Electricity
AF 5.1 – Melting Ice
AF 5.2 – Boiling a Kettle
AF 6.1 – Dissolving Sugar
AF 7.1 & 8.1 Measuring Viscosity
HS 1.1 – Solids, Liquids, and Gases with Toy Atoms
HS 1.2 – Melting Butter in Hot Water
HS 2.1 Nerf Gun Bullet Photon Analogy
HS 2.2 Slinky Phonon Analogy
HS 3.1 – Melting Solids in the Sun
HS 3.X – Solar Cars (Draft)
HS 4.1 – Ice Cold and Boiling Hot
HS 5.1 – Heat Transfer in Metal
HS 5.X – Hot Spoon, Cold Spoon
HS 6.1 – Heat Generation Stations
HS 7.1 – Keeping Hot Things Hot
Year 4 consists of one module, May the Forces be with You, which explores how forces can be represented and understood using arrows and introduces electric, magnetic, and gravitational forces. The lesson plans and associated resources for module can be found at https://www.einsteinianphysics.com/may-the-forces-be-with-you. Please note the below collection of videos is incomplete, more will be added for the final module.
MF 1.1 – Tug of War: The Maths of Arrows
MF 3.1 – Rubber Band Forces
MF 3.2 – Cartesian Diver
MF 6.1 – Exploring Electric Forces
Year 5 consists of two modules, Fantastic Photons, which explores how light is made of photons and how everything has bulletiness and waviness, and Our Place in the Universe, which further explores the concept of gravity and introduces space from the solar system to rockets and more. For participating schools, the lesson plans and associated resources for each of these modules can be found here. Please Contact Us if you would like to join the project as a participating school. Please note the below collections of videos are incomplete, more will be added for the final modules.
FP 2.1 – Nerf Gun Challenge (Draft)
FP 3.1 – How We See Objects with Photons
FP 3.2 – Nerf Gun Photography
OP 1.1 – How Galaxies Form
OP 2.1 – Introducing the Spacetime Simulator
OP 2.2 – How Mass Curves Spacetime
Year 6 is consists of one module on the topics of climate science. For participating schools, the lesson plans and associated resources for this module can be found here. Please Contact Us if you would like to join the project as a participating school. Please note the below collection of videos is incomplete, more will be added for the final modules.
CS 6.1 – Resonance
CS 6.2 – Earth’s Blanket and Vibrating Molecules
CS – How Wood Becomes Coal
SAFETY – Solar Panels
Year 7 consists of one module, Einstein’s Gravity, which explores the concepts of curved spacetime and how it relates to gravity along with other concepts of Einstein’s relativity. For participating schools, the lesson plans and associated resources for this module can be found here. Please Contact Us if you would like to join the project as a participating school. Please note the below collection of videos is incomplete, more will be added for the final module.
Kepler Orbits and Curved Spacetime (Draft)
Measuring the Curvature of Spacetime (Draft)
Gravitational Lensing (Draft)
Measuring the Force of Gravity (Draft)
Terminal Speed of a Balloon (Draft)
Measuring Mass in the Space Station (Draft)
Measuring Angles with Light (Draft)
Measuring Straightness (Draft)
Einstein’s Happiest Thought – Gravity and Acceleration
Einstein’s Happiest Thought – Free Fall Experiments (Draft)
Triangles on Curved Surfaces (Draft)
Curved Geometry with Woks (Draft)
Tidal Locking
Year 8 is expected to consist of one module on the topic of energy, introducing E = mc² and E = hf alongside the concept of binding energy and renewable energy. The lesson plans and associated resources for this module will be found here once they have been released for participating schools. Please Contact Us if you would like to join the project as a participating school. Please note the below collection of videos is incomplete, more will be added for the final module.
Solar Panel Setup
Tilt, Measurement, and Graphing
Power, Pit Ponies, and Solar Energy
Photovoltaic Effect Toy Model
Year 9 is expected to consist of one module, Quantum World, exploring fundamental ideas around the wavy quantum properties of matter. The lesson plans and associated resources for this module will be found here once they have been released for participating schools. Please Contact Us if you would like to join the project as a participating school. Please note the below collection of videos is incomplete, more will be added for the final module.
Phasors 1 – Introduction to Phasor Wheels
Year 10 is expected to consist of one module, From Climate to Cosmology, exploring the underlying science of climate change, the critical challenges we face, and what we can all do to address them and science that underpins the Earth’s climate relates to our understanding of the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to the present and our predictions of the future, along with how we understand these big questions. The lesson plans and associated resources for this module will be found here once they have been released for participating schools. Please Contact Us if you would like to join the project as a participating school. Please note the below collection of videos is incomplete, more will be added for the final module.
CC 10.1 – Balloon Universe
Mathematical skills are critically important for students’ understanding of physical ideas and interacting with the modern world in everyday life. We are currently developing two Mathematics for Einstein’s Universe modules, one for Primary levels and one for Secondary levels. Currently, the Primary module is well developed, and the Secondary module is in the planning stages. If you are interested in participating in trials of our Primary module, please contact Anastasia at [email protected]. Please note the below collection of videos is incomplete, more will be added for the final modules.
Maths – How Many Ancestors? – A Doubling Activity
Maths – Powers of Two on a Chessboard
MF 1.1 – Tug of War: The Maths of Arrows
OP 1.1 – How Galaxies Form
A number of our activities do not fit into our modules, but you may still find that these activities are useful in your classroom, either as one-offs or to complement our modules.
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