We started with getting introduced to the word space. We watched videos and went through a presentation to know about how astronauts live in space shuttle? What are the challenges? How do they do their daily chores? What type of clothes do they wear? Then we decided to make space costume for us. We decided to design our own mission for the week. All children started working on it. Till 3:00 we all were busy making our costume and other required arrangements to go to space. After 3:00pm we had a training which astronauts go through before going to space. We all had lot of fun while doing exercises like: Free fall, rock star fall, walking on rope and so on. That was the first day where we prepared ourselves for the rest of the week. Our day ended with a movie: “October Sky” which was based on rocket making. The other day started with making of rocket. We started with small discussion on parts of rocket. What is the function of different parts? How do we design them? How do we make them? How do we decide the fuel? The discussion was very interesting for few children while few became rest less and wanted to make rocket. After breakfast we got into making of the rocket. All children made their individual rocket. It was really amazing to see how they were involved and decorating their own rockets. After lunch we all launched them in sky. We were quite excited to see our rocket going high in the sky. We all celebrated our rocket launching by getting wet and splashing water. The day ended with star and moon watching through telescope. It was a bad day to do star gazing as it was a full moon dayL.
Third day started with a video of solar system. We observed different planets and explored their sizes. We compared sizes of different planets and distance between them. We made model of solar system using land and pebbles/stones/rock to the scale. Afternoon was a different project; we all were given a project where we all were supposed to design a parachute which will bring astronaut on the earth without hurting him. Few constraints were put on the material and size that made whole exercise more interesting. At last we tested our parachutes. We could see few failures and few successes. We ended our day with the movie Appolo-13.
Last day one group worked on making of rocket launcher and other group worked on making of energy web. We discussed about energy and big bang theory and all together made web of energy. We could see through the web how energy is inter connected. We also worked on reflection. We ended our week by testing our rocket launcher.