Underneath the Ice poetry with Year 5

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NUSTEM have been working with the Year 5 classes to create poems based on the science of ice cores. Year 5 have done a fantastic job and their poems along with more information and activities can be found here.

Wednesday 11th March Reception Family Space Explorers

NASA/JPL-Caltech

This morning, Reception children and their families took a trip to Mars with Little E the robot rover from the book “Are we nearly there yet?”. When they got there they designed the Mars landscape and built Mars rover vehicles to explore this new world. For more information about the robots in “Are we nearly there yet?”, more books about space and for activities for you to try at home, click here.

Wednesday 22nd January 2020 Underneath the Ice Session 2

Today Year 5 became poets. They read the Ice Cores poem, written especially for this workshop by Katrina Porteus and found out more about they way Katrina writes her poems. Year 5 then used the scientific knowledge they developed in the last session to write their own poems. Click here to find out more.

Wednesday 15th January 2020 Year 5 Underneath The Ice Session One

Today Year 5 became Antarctic explorers and found out what it would be like to visit the Princess Elizabeth Research Station at the South Pole. They found out how scientists use the secrets trapped inside ice cores to tell them what happened in the past and to predict what will happen in the future. Year 5 also read and analysed a poem written especially for this workshop by poet Katrina Porteus and discovered how we can use poetry to communicate scientific facts. Click here to find out more.

11th March 2019 Family Space Explorers

NASA/JPL-Caltech

This morning Reception children and their families took a trip to Mars with Little E the robot rover from the book “Are we nearly there yet?”. When they got there they designed the Mars landscape and built Mars rover vehicles to explore this new world. For more information about the robots in “Are we nearly there yet?”, more books about space and for activities for you to try at home, click here.