I recently brought my nephew to Explorium and the thing that excited us both so much was launching the rockets so that’s what I will focus on today as I want to bring that excitement to my own classroom.
I would start this lesson by sparking the children’s curiosity with videos of rockets blasting into space from youtube. I would ascertain the children’s PRK about rockets through talk and discussion.
Then we would work in pairs to create rockets using different materials like paper and tinfoil.
We would bring the rockets outside and launch them and combining maths we would measure how far they travelled using a metre stick/trundle wheel and we would observe and record the results. We would discuss why some travelled further than others. We would finish off by drawing a diagram of our rockets to complete the lesson and decorate them (incorporating art).