I would start my lesson by reading the book “The way back home”.
We would discuss ways to get home from space- Children will hopefully identify rockets or spaceships.
The children will make a rocket using paper- they will design and make rockets using colours.
The children will create rockets using 2-d shapes and construction junk art.
Then we will examine how rockets are launched- We will watch videos of nasa spaceships being launched into space. We will discuss astronauts in the spaceships. We will role play being astronauts on the spaceships. We will pretend to be in completing the check list and count down to launch.
We will predict, investigate and complete an experiment called Rocket Mice and see which rocket mice will go the biggest distance.
We will record the distance and measure it.
Small world play in Aistear using Rockets, spaceships and astronauts