The Science Museum

Year 1 had such an excellent day at the science museum! After travelling there via bus we arrived at the museum and split into two groups. Each group did the same fun activities, just in a different order. The activities were:

A Destination Space workshop- we set off to space by making ourselves really small so that we would fit into the space shuttle. Once we were on the space shuttle we talked about what we can eat and drink, and how we have to reuse lots of things (this includes dirty water). We saw how to filter dirty water to make it clean. We practiced our space walk, and saw how to use an anti-gravity machine. I even got to practice walking like there was no gravity by doing exercise with weights on my ankles! We looked at how the astronauts have to go outside the international space station if there is something that needs fixing. We watched a short video showing us the view from the space station before returning back to Earth
We visited the Exploring Space gallery, where we saw an astronauts costume, gloves and helmet. We also saw a replica of the Eagle (the shuttle that Neil Armstrong landed on the moon with) and sketched a drawing of it. We saw lots of rockets and how they have changed over time
Our final gallery was the Modern World gallery. As we have been looking at explorers in Year 1, we saw different ways that explorers have explored the world. We saw old trains, ships, planes and cars.
We also loved having our packed lunch all together!