More Travelling, Experiencing and Recording

A WHOLE DIFFERENT VIEW! What a great picture Mrs Hughes!

 

 

Oh The image that Samantha had made last time, of the figures tethered together in space had stayed in my head so much I thought we should use it as a starting point for this session…  we planned to travel into space again, PREPARING for our trip by designing and wearing special goggles for space, EXPERIENCING a new planet and RECORDING what it felt like or what we saw.

After a brief reflection on what we did in our last session about GRAVITY, we were going to transform our classroom,  in our minds, into a whole universe…

A very resourceful Mrs Hughes had got together some string, tape, glue, coloured filter paper and egg boxes.. these were turned into special space goggles – each child made a pair for themselves and reported that they had trouble tying on string to hold the goggles on their head.

I made a pair in my spacecraft here in Belfast:

I used cardboard, tape, yogurt pot tops and filter paper to make my space goggles

Once the children finished theirs they took space walks in the classroom to test what they felt like…

 

 

 

We talked about TIME and DISTANCE and LIGHT YEARS…

that it takes a long time to travel big distances through space. Mrs Hughes spoke of TIME ZONES and that we could be in different layers of time.

Mrs Hughes and Lauren prepared the classroom into TIME ZONES using rope criss crossed over the room.

The children were then tasked with the job of travelling through time zones over the room…

Eventually they reached a new planet and broke into teams to explore this:

The boys go off exploring the new planet but for safety they are tethered together so no one can float away!
On the mission and working and exploring as a team…
The girls’ team mission underway…

We had some terrestrial interference and our connection was lost… we switched to Facetime to continue our session. These strange pictures were beamed to me from the new planet… but they are UPSIDE Down.. what an unusual view I was receiving!

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

The children reported that they had fun on this mission and that they felt safe tethered together, that their movements were slowed down because of this, they had to move carefully, but others reported that it felt claustrophobic in the goggles and that their breathing got hot and came back to them…

I observed the astronauts helping each other if they tripped and talking with each other as they moved.

 

 

 

 

 

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