Year 6 enjoyed a fantastic workshop today from the Centre for Life, all based around maths and investigating using our maths skills.
We started off with a trip inside an inflatable planetarium, where we started in Hebburn and swiftly moved to the moon, then Saturn, Mars, Pluto and the edge of our Galaxy, ending with looking at the nearest galaxy to us. This allowed us to look at comparative distances and understand how far or close objects in space are. We used our Greek knowledge of gods, goddesses and infamous mythical characters to identify the different star formations.
In the afternoon, we used angles and measuring distances to complete a rocket investigation. Using averages we found the most successful angle to launch rockets is 45 degrees! So if you’re planning any Nasa style activities, this should help you!
Finally we ended with using our cube and volume knowledge to find the density of different rocks, three of which were from space! We ended up using the tip from the ancient Greek Archimedes for finding density – Eureka!! Check out the pictures and see if you can guess which ones were the martian, interstellar and moon rocks!
“This was the best visitor or trip ever!”, Shayan, year 6.
