Tuesday 11th February

At Home Ed group today we continued learning about space.  The children watched some clips of astronauts in space demonstrating experiments and then the children had a go to compare the results of the same experiment on earth.  It got them thinking about the role of gravity and the effect that has on everything.

 The first experiment was to wet a wash cloth and then ring it out and notice where the water went.  Compared to in space  - firstly it was a challenge simply to wet the cloth, then when the astronaut rang it out the water didn't run out. It became like jelly on his hands. The cloth didn't unwind from the twist.

They looked at food that the astronauts would eat.  And how they excercised. 

 They had to blow up their rocket balloons and race them to see which went the furthest. 

 Gracie had a go at making planets using marbling ink, taking care to copy the colours of the planets.

Evie's spaceship.