What does this video tell you about space?

How many planets did you spot? Watch it again and see if you can name them?

Where do you think space travel will go?

Human kind has only been travelling into space since 12 April 1961. We are now talking about passenger rockets taking us into space. Where do you think we will be in 100 years?

Space is so interesting

Here are some interesting facts about space. What one did you find fascinating? Can you come up with your own fact about space?

1. 41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
2. A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
3. A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
4. A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
5. A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
6. All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
7. Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
8. Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
9. Astronauts cannot burp in space.
10. Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
11. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
12. In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
13. It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
14. Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
15. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
16. More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
17. Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
18. Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
19. Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
20. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
21. The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
22. The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
23. The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
24. The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
25. The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
26. The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
27. The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
28. The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
29. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
30. The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
31. The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
32. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
33. There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
34. There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
35. Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
36. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Library Visit

We had fun down at the Hutt Library, what I want to know is, how can you use this resource to help you investigate our space unit?

10minutes free time to the most innovative answer. 10 minutes free time if I get 10 different ways to use the Library.

Report Writing

We have been trying to grab the audiences attention. Angus wrote this example.

The sound of flapping wings zoomed above the treetops 245 million years ago, as the Triseratactle, the most deadly dinosaur ever, swoops down and attacks its prey.

Why do you think it is good?

Challenge:
Can you write a fantastic attention grabbing sentence. Room 11 will vote on the best comment posted and the winner will receive a chocolate bar of their choice.