Space Exploration

No matter what age you are, thinking about outer space and all the possibilities is always appealing. In our most recent PlacenTinkers we had an absolute blast (pun intended) exploring all things Space related. Lots of hands-on learning took place which focused on astronauts, the moon, The International Space Station and NASA.

The literacy portion of our Makerspace was from NASA’s Story Time From Space. Astronaut Tim Peake, read us the children's book The Incredible Intergalactic Journey Home by David Cadji-Newby and Pedro Serapicos from aboard the International Space Station! It was great fun to see him float through his capsule in a zero gravity environment!

Next we rotated to different Learning Centers with engaging space activities at each one. We explored moon rocks and wrote down our observations. At another station we created moons out of clay and used rocks to simulate how craters were formed. We traveled through space with Virtual Reality goggles and made our space themed coloring pages come to life with Augmented Reality. Second grade students took a selfie from space using Green Screen technology.

We loved our Space expedition! It may just inspire a brand new interest in exploring the wonders of the universe and who knows; there may be some future astronauts among us!