I am choosing Rockets as the activity set.
I will introduce the topic by reading the book ‘We Have Lift Off’ by Sean Taylor.
I would like to do the experiment ‘Rocket Launch’ with the children. I will break the children up into groups.
The children will need large balloons, string, drinking straw, clothes peg, Sellotape, two chairs.
1. Blow up a long-shaped balloon and let it go.
2. Notice what happens.
3. Pull string through a drinking straw.
4. Tie the string to two chairs and pull it tight.
5. Blow up a long shaped balloon and keep the air it in it using a clothes peg.
6. Using Sellotape attach the balloon to the side of the straw.
7. Pull the whole thing back to the beginning of the string and take off the clothes peg and… launch your rocket!
We will compare how far our rockets went- whose went the furthest? Etc.
I will end the lesson by doing the poem ‘The Rocket’ by Andrew Frinkle.