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Space travel

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Changes within Living Memory Transport

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Objectives

History

  • Learn about events which were significant nationally or globally.
  • Know where people and events fit within a chronological framework.
  • Ask and answer questions, understand some ways we find out about the past.

Design and Techonology

  • Design purposeful functional objects for themselves and others based on design criteria.
  • Generate, develop, model and communicate ideas through talking, drawing and mock-ups.
  • Select tools and materials to construct an object.

Lesson Planning

Children learn about space travel and appreciate the significance of space exploration in recent history. They begin to recognise a chronology and then go on to design a rocket/space station, working collaboratively.

Teaching Outcomes
To understand when space travel started and begin to develop a chronology of space exploration.
To design a rocket or space station which can be used for active role-play within the classroom.

Children can:

  • Understand the significance of space travel in recent history and begin to recognise a chronology.
  • Design a rocket or space station, working collaboratively.

You Will Need

  • A range of large cardboard boxes
  • Corrugated card and other strong card
  • Masking tape and Sellotape
  • Packing materials
  • Cloth
  • Newspaper
  • Wire
  • Coat-hangers
  • Sticks and thin dowelling
  • Stanley knife for adult use

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