FUN TIME – MARS ANIMATION

After talking about the next step being Mars exploration in our Spinning in Space Inquiry, I thought you’d enjoy this humorous animation about any future “Exploration of Mars”. Enjoy it. 😎

Galileo and Telescopes

Fantastic work constructing your amazing spacecraft last Friday!!! Pat on the back to everybody and to all the mums and dads who helped.

This week we are coming to the end of our Inquiry cards and we are “Looking into Space” at the star constellations. We use telescopes to see what is up there in space and here are some videos to show you how they are used. You need the second video in your “Looking into Space” booklet about Galileo! Enjoy learning about this. 🙂

This video shows us different types of telescopes.

This video shows another of Galileo’s discoveries.

All about Telescopes

This website for kids explains how telescopes work and the different kinds of telescopes you can get. http://www.kidsastronomy.com/telescopes.htm

INTERESTING TELESCOPE FACTS has some interesting up-to-date facts about modern telescopes.

Early Astronomers – Copernicus, Galileo, Newton

Early Astronomers – is a website where you can find out all about Copernicus, Galileo and Isaac Newton.

What important discoveries did they make which changed the way people thought about their world and space? Write a comment to let me know what you have found out.

Who are these men?

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Here are some interesting videos about their lives. This will help you match them with their pictures.

COPERNICUS

GALILEO

NEWTON

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