Have you seen any of the
space videos made by Col. Chris Hadfield - commander of the International Space Station? They're fantastic!
My kids love them! I've been showing them to my older students to reinforce the concept of weight vs. mass & to my younger students to teach gravity . Col. Hadfield made a series of short videos answering interesting space questions like what happens when you cry in a ZERO-G environment? Do your tears fall down?
How do you go to the bathroom? How are your senses affected? How do you sleep? Eat? There's over 100 videos on You Tube - really interesting & great for kids. Col. Hadfield spent 5 months on board the International Space Station (ISS) which is at this minute orbiting around us at 17,500 mph!!
Every hour and a half, it makes a complete orbit around the Earth. It is the size of a football field!!
Col. Hadfield came home last week. If you go to the website How Many PeopleAre in Space Right Now (
howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com), you can find out the number of astronauts in space at any given time. After I show my little ones some of the space videos, I have them complete this worksheet,
click here for a copy.
After seeing the videos, my kids can really understand what gravity is & it is also easy to see how depending upon where you are in the universe, weight changes but mass does not.
We're in school for another month here but for those of you who have already finished up your school year- happy summer vacation to you!!
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