Hi blog Readers
This term my pod is working on space. On Wednesday we learnt about craters on the moon. We were put in groups of 3. We had many things we needed for this project: sand, bucket, metal balls and a magnet etc. We put the sand in our buckets and had to drop the balls from different heights. To make sure we didn’t ruin the crater we had made when we collected the balls, we used the magnets to collect it. We found that the deepest whole was the biggest ball out of the three dropped from above our heads. To make sure it was an even estimate the person who dropped the ball from their knees did it for all 3 sizes. My favourite part was hearing about how deep the other groups balls dropped in the sand. My least favourite part was cleaning up. On Thursday we learnt about satellites. We were put in 7 groups of 4. Each group got a question we had to answer as a team. My groups question was how do satellites get launched into space. We found out the get launched by rockets. To find out more take a look at the doc above.
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Kia ora Hayley,
It’s great to see you are enjoying our space learning, and it’s only the first week!
Cleaning up the craters activity was a ‘mission’ wasn’t it!
Do you have any questions about space so far that you’d like to research further into?