Website of the Month - August 2009
Just a quickie - it is an online game designed to teach your kids about Newtonian Mechanics - that's "gravity" to you and me.
Simply fire an atom amongst gravity sources. To advance a level, the atom must survive the given time without collisions.
It's kind of like playing billiards on a trampoline with a couple of bowling balls on it - yes, this is the real stuff of Physics and why the subject is regarded as a 'proper' one, unlike Media Studies which is all about something called 'communication' ?!
Worth a play and, once played, you will truly grasp just what is achieved when NASA sends a probe millions of miles into space and it doesn't crash into the planet.