The main thing
here is to get children to predict what will happen and
to observe what did actually happen. The words push and
pull are useful to substitute for "force" with
younger children.
In
terms of this site - ask them what causes the rockets
to move?
A
good experiment would be to make a balloon
rocket.
Making
simple pop-up cards of spaceships might be a useful activity.
The
following Flash movie may also be used to get children talking
about synonyms for movements.
http://www.sln.org/pieces/cych/apollo%2010/teachers/resources/actions.html
.
This
could be followed up by groups making a display of movement
words around pictures of spacecraft.
OTHER
HIGHLY RELEVANT SITES
A
quote from the QCA document at this level-
"Present
children with a collection of toys. Ask them to suggest
how to start them moving, to test their ideas and to decide
whether they were right."
The
site below is excellent for this purpose. It could also
be used as the starting point of a D&T unit for older
children.
http://www.burleyms.demon.co.uk/TecToys/tectoys.html
This site is excellent for showing how toys move.
If
you have a video projector or whiteboard these would be
good pages to demonstrate. Of course a good collection
of moving toys would also be good!
