ROCKETS
This workshop covers forces and fair
testing in a fun way. Using water,
compressed air and film canisters,
children are able to launch their rockets
and vary launch pressures to find out
what works best. Children learn ICT
skills, practice oracy and work together
to record the dramatic lift off.. Half day
ASTRONAUTS
The most common question children ask
astronauts is, “How do you go to the
toilet in space?”
This workshop, weather permitting,,
demonstrates solar energy panels and
how materials have amazing properties.
Children have opportunities to conduct their own fair tests with astronauts' food, how to reduce their carbon footprint.) Includes a short video on eating in space which is followed by eating space food.
90 minute show
PLANETS
Science fiction can be really annoying when it gets the science facts wrong. The size of stars and planets and the distances between them are huge. Playground planets scales the
Earth as a ball bearing and the sun as a … well that would be telling too much. Next an ingeniously simple demonstration shows the distance from the Earth to the moon. Once on the moon’s surface, children make moon craters just like the real thing. Then the class moves outside to scale the distances between planets. This is quickly organized by reeling
out the planet line and standing children as planets along it. Watch them play with the planet vortex to understand why planet years all vary. This more than covers NC requirements for KS2 science including day and night and the seasons. And it’s fun! Half
day course.
WORKING IN SPACE
Air is all around us and it is easily taken for granted. But in this workshop, children find out that air is very real. Plastic bottles are crushed under atmospheric pressure and children operate an air bazooka. What happens
to a feather falling in a vacuum? Can
your class work together to keep the
moon orbiting the Earth? Finally, everyone makes a piece of kit from the
International Space Station.
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