Just before half-term we were lucky enough to loan a very interesting case full of Moon rocks (yes rocks from the Moon)! The rocks were on loan from the Science and Technology Federation Council (STFD) and spent time in each classroom, where the children were able to handle the rocks and carried out several activities relating to them. The rocks varied in size, shape and construction and the children were amazed that they could actually handle them, albeit very gently!
Class 1 have looked at footage of the historical Moon landing and then thought about what humans would need to survive in space and what we would miss from home. We also made edible meteorites and were able to identify different types of rock.
Class 2 investigated the moon rocks and created our own fact files which we then turned into a book that the class can read during reading time. We also sketched the different types of rocks, noticing how they differed and were similar to the rocks found around the school field. When holding the rocks, we used the flapjack approach which we created when looking into archaeology. Class 2 created the flapjack approach to make sure that we look after artefacts carefully and safely, ask your children to demonstrate
Class 3 learned about The Space Race and looked at different types of meteors; we even made our own edible version. We also carried out astronaut training in PE as well as producing written work about the Moon rocks. The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II.
