Having enjoyed a restful Easter break with my family and time to catch up on my work and studies, I returned to my setting refreshed and ready for the Summer term. On the first day back, I began a ‘Rocket Science’ experiment as part of an observation for my Early Years Initial Teacher Training. Rocket Science is a project run by The Royal Horticultural Society and the UK Space Agency and involves growing rocket seeds, one packet of which has spent six months on board the International Space Station. I used the experiment to cover a maths observation with a small group of preschool children, bringing in vocabulary focused on capacity, measurements and time as well as thinking about how life on the Space Station would be different to on Earth. As yet, we have no idea which seeds spent time in space as the rate of growth appears the same for each. Perhaps time will tell if spending time in microgravity has an effect.
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