Moon landings

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

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 Technology

  • Select from and use a range of tools and equipment to construct an object.
  • Select from and use a range of materials/components incl. construction materials.

Lesson Planning

Using footage of moon landing and images of the earth from space, children understand this significant historical event. They read Mark Haddon’s Sea of Tranquillity and are able to date the event. They now build their own space station or rocket in the classroom, using their own designs.

Teaching Outcomes
To recognise the significance of the moon landings in 1969.
To create a rocket or space station which is fit for purpose within the classroom

Children can:

  • Understand the significance of space travel in recent history and begin to recognise a chronology.
  • Construct and build a rocket/space station, working collaboratively.
  • Use imagination to help us understand the significance and the magic of these events.

You Will Need

  • Sea of Tranquillity by Mark Haddon
  • 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