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Hi Dolores,

This sounds brilliant I enjoy the workshop set up! in particular the predict and compare aspects are fab. Here are some ideas for experiments along the lines of what you described.

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Hi Michaela,

This sounds brilliant, perhaps discussing that the carbonation in the water that makes these raisins dance is the same as the tiny bit of CO2 (carbon dioxide) in our atmosphere or most of the atmosphere of Venus!

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Hi Gemma,

This is wonderful, the focus on discussion is great. another video that might be cool for your class is linked here!

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Hi Olwyn,

This is fab! the focus on prediction and reflection in particular is great! It could be cool do do a chemical rocket demo at the end too!

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Hi Katie,

I like how you went through the cross curricular links. Here might be a useful place for you to find resources.

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Hi Sharon, this is fab especially the prediction aspect, very important for ensuring engagement. This video might be useful for your lesson.

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Hi Denise,

This sounds fab! Discussing how a rocket works is brilliant, I would recommend getting the children to think about what we actually do with rockets –> launch satellites, deliver materials to the ISS, send people around the moon, send rovers to mars etc.

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Hi Sharon,

This sounds brilliant! It might be useful to discuss different uses of rockets –> such as launching satellites, launching telescopes, sending people around the moon etc!

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Hi Lora,

This sounds fab! it might be cool to integrate at the end of this lesson a demonstration of chemical rockets! or perhaps one using a bike pump.

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Hi Margaret,

This is lovely, seeing the cross curricular links is very useful. In terms of the moving around like the planets their orbits can be a bit confusing I recommend if you have the space to mark out the orbits in chalk outside and give a couple of steps to mark each – so if all of the children move in unison it will show that some planets take longer to move around the sun! Pluto can be cool to include as its orbit looks so different from the rest!

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Hi Edel,

This sounds wonderful. See here for some resources for classroom activities.

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Hi Caroline,

This sounds fabulous! what might be cool here is thinking about where Aliens might come from.

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Hi Louise,

This is a wonderful lesson. What might be cool for the children to think about is rockets are used for all sorts of missions –> to deliver equipment to the ISS, to put satellites into orbit, to send telescopes to space, to send rovers to the moon or mars, or to send people around the moon like was recently done with Artemis II.

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Hi Aislinn,

This is wonderful. What might be cool at the end of this is for the class to watch a chemical reaction rocket launch!

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Hi Riona, This sounds brilliant.

Here is a video that might be useful for the rocket aspect of this!

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