Activity Set: Rockets
I am teaching junior infants in September and I think that rockets are of huge interest to the little ones. I would start my lesson by reading the book “The way back home”. Oliver Jeffers is an excellent author and it’s a great opportunity to integrate with literacy.
Children will be prompted to think about ways to get home from space and travel in space. Once we have introduced the topic of rockets, I will show them some real rockets and I will also show them a video of a rocket launching.
The children will make a rocket using paper- they will design and make rockets using colours.
Then children will watch me make a rocket mouse and we will compare two launches and pick the best. The children will predict before we carry out the experiment. We will predict, investigate and complete an experiment called Rocket Mice and see which rocket mice will go the biggest distance.
I will then help the children explore this in small groups and they can feedback which rocket was better.
Children will design and colour a rocket.
Children will make a 3d rocket in junk art as part of Aistear.
We will do an acrostic poem for the word rocket.
We will also do a word map for rockets.