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Guilford County Schools ACES Program Weekly Theme: Blast Off – Centers Activities Art Center UFO's Take two paper plates & glue them together. Then glue on a paper bowl on top of the paper plates. Have students decorate to make a UFO. Telescope Craft Cover a paper towel or wrapping paper roll with construction paper. Have the child decorate it. Have the child look through it and pretend to see various objects in space. Shoe Box Planet Mobile Make a sun and 8 planets out of paper. Decorate the circles how you would like them (the sun is usually yellow). (You can glue them on cardboard.) Hole punch a hole. Place string or yarn through the hole. Tie off. Make holes on the top of a shoe box. Make a space background. Tie the sun first and then the planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Rocket Packs Empty two soda bottles use clear packing tape to wrap together, then cut thick strips of fabric or ribbon and tape on. The straps will look like those on a backpack. Lite Brite Constellations If you have a Lite Brite, allow students to use it to make constellations. Moon Prints Add tempera paint to water and dish soap, then use a straw (with a hole pierced halfway up the straw to prevent swallowing!) to blow bubbles way over the top of the bowl. Press a piece of paper down onto the bubbles, popping them and leaving "craters" on the paper. Board Game Center Out of This World: Earth & Space Science Game – Lakeshore Can Do! Solar System Game – Lakeshore Solar System Floor Puzzle – Lakeshore Space Jingo – Edu-Play Building/Manipulatives Center Space Building Students can build a space station or space ships with blocks or Lego® bricks. Space Blocks Cover wooden building blocks in aluminum foil and let the students build spaceships. July 2008 1 Activity ideas obtained from ACES staff and public domain materials Guilford County Schools ACES Program CATCH Kids® Games (K-3)-#98, #270 (3-5)-#24, #85, #153 Computer Center/Computer Lab Space Arcade http://funschool.kaboose.com/globe-rider/space/games/index.html Space Games for Kids http://www.seasky.org/space-games.html Lunar Cycle Challenge http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/moon/moon_challenge/moon_challenge.html The Magic School Bus Space Chase http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/space/index.asp NASA Online Games http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/playandlearn/playandlearn_archive_1.html StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronauts http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html Space Place http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/games.shtml Hubble’s Greatest Hits – View Space http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/nasa/space-telescopes/space-telescopes.html Dramatic Play Center Astronaut Dress Up Both Kaplan and Lakeshore have an astronaut dress up outfit. Space Ship Students can also make a space ship out of a cardboard box or make the rocket packs in the art center for further dress up ideas. Title: 5 ASTRONAUTS Five brave astronauts floated into space (5 fingers float) The first one disappeared without a trace (show one then quickly hide behind back) The second one somersaulted past the moon (roll hands) The third on entered the atmosphere too soon (hands to face) The fourth one took off counting ten to zero (show 10 fingers then none) And the fifth one landed safely like a hero. (jump then hands on hips) July 2008 2 Activity ideas obtained from ACES staff and public domain materials Guilford County Schools ACES Program Gross Motor Center Moon Rock Toss Take sheets of scrap paper (copy paper works best) and crumple them into balls. You will need two for each child. Explain that these are moon rocks. They are almost weightless, as they would be on the moon. Divide your class into two teams. Put one team on one side of the room behind a strip of masking tape. Put the other team on the other side of the room behind another strip of masking tape. The two pieces of tape should be about 8 feet apart. Neither team is allowed to cross their tape or their connection to the spaceship will be lost. Count down from 10 to 1. At blastoff, the children can throw moon rocks at each other. If any rocks land within reach you may pick them up and throw them again. Once you say “Mission Complete”, everyone must stop and the team with the fewest moon rocks on their side wins. Moon Rock Relay Divide the children into teams. Give each team a pile of "moon rocks" (any kind of ball) and a set of kitchen tongs. Place a bucket for each team at a finish line. The object of the game is to be the first team to transport all of the moon rocks from the pile to the bucket using only the tongs (robot arm). The first racer will pick up a rock, run to the bucket return to his/her team and pass the tongs to the next player. This continues until all of the "rocks" have been moved. Asteroid Belt Have the children form a circle. Toss the inflated balloons or "asteroids" in the air and the children have to keep the asteroids from hitting the Earth. Flying Comets For this game you will use foxtail balls (comet balls, etc.) Place a hula hoop on the floor. The students must toss their comets and try to get it completely inside the circle. Astronaut, Astronaut, Alien Play just like duck, duck, goose Giant Solar System Floor Mat – Kaplan Astronaut Exercises Astronauts must be in top physical condition to endure the rigors of space travel. Get your space ace trainees in shape with an out-of-this-world workout! Solar System Stretch--Reach to the sky; then stretch arms out wide. Rocket Ship Run-in-Place--Warm up and get ready to take off! Galactic Gallop--Gallop all around the galaxy (your room). Lunar Leaps--Jump as far as you can. Trainee Toe Touches--Touch your toes ten times. Planet Push-ups--Do nine push-ups--one for each planet! Constellation Cooldown--Lie down on your back. Relax as you imagine staring at a starry sky. KidzLit® (K-2)-The Adventures of Taxi Dog (3-5)-Shark Lady July 2008 3 Activity ideas obtained from ACES staff and public domain materials Guilford County Schools ACES Program Listening Center Learn About Science Through Music CD Set - Kaplan Music Center The Sun is a Fiery Ball of Gas To help the students develop understanding of the concept that the sun is a ball of fiery gases, not solid like the earth, use streamers or strips of paper in red, yellow, white and orange. Give each child one streamer. The children are positioned in concentric circles of colors. The center is white (hottest part of sun), then yellow, then orange and last red. Put on spacey type music and have children "boil and bubble" around in their circles. The circles can spin in different directions. Periodically say "solar flare" at which time the red streamers burst off the circle and then return to their place. (Solar flares are giant bursts of gas exploding off the surface of the sun.) To end, have children slowly "run out of gas" and sit on the floor as you turn down music. The Planet Song Tune: The Ant's Go Marching The planets revolve around the sun. Hurrah! Hurrah! The planets revolve around the sun. Hurrah! Hurrah! The planets revolve around the sun and spin on their axis everyone. And they all go spinning, around and around they go. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Hurrah! Hurrah! Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Hurrah! Hurrah! Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are whirling and twirling around the sun. and they all go spinning, around and around they go. Jupiter, Saturn are next in line. Hurrah! Hurrah! Jupiter, Saturn are next in line. Hurrah! Hurrah! Jupiter, and Saturn are next in line. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto make nine. And they all go spinning, around and around they go. Astronaut Song Tune: If You're Happy & You Know It Outer space is where I'd really like to go I'd ride inside a spaceship don't you know. I'd like to travel near the stars Wave to Jupiter and Mars Outer space is where I'd really like to go! July 2008 4 Activity ideas obtained from ACES staff and public domain materials Guilford County Schools ACES Program Reading Center K-3 Space Case - Edward Marshall Roaring Rockets - Tony Mitton Draw Me A Star - Eric Carle Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown 3-5 The Magic School Bus Lost In the Solar System - Joanna Cole My Teacher Is an Alien by Bruce Coville and Mike Wimmer Our Solar System by Seymour Simon My Life as an Afterthought Astronaut by Bill Myers Riddles How do astronauts eat their ice cream in space? In floats! What plants do aliens have? Venus fly traps! When the moon got dirty, what did he do? He took a meteor shower! When is the moon not hungry? When it’s full! What did the alien say to the book? Take me to your reader! What is an astronaut's favorite key on a computer keyboard? The space bar! Science and Nature Center Simple Rocket Take a sheet of computer paper. Start in one corner of the paper and roll it tightly around a pencil and tape the end point. Remove pencil. Trim both ends off square so paper is about the length of a drinking straw. Fold one end over about 3/4 of an inch and tape with clear Scotch tape. Using two triangle measuring about 2" x 2" x 3 1/2" fold each in half and attach to sides of rocket toward open end. Insert a regular drinking straw into the open end. When you're ready to blast off, just blow on the straw. **Make sure to wrap the paper nice and tight or it won't blast off. Make a Rocket: MOON SHADOWS What You Need 1 flashlight 1 large ball July 2008 5 Activity ideas obtained from ACES staff and public domain materials Guilford County Schools ACES Program 2 toothpicks clay 1 thick book 1 push pin 1 small ball What You Do 1. The large ball will be the Earth, the small ball will be the Moon, and the flashlight will be the Sun. Remember, never look directly into the Sun! Stick a toothpick into the Earth and another into the Moon. 2. Put the other end of the toothpicks into two balls of clay. Flatten them so that the clay makes the Earth and the Moon stand up on their toothpicks. 3. The push pin will be you. Stick yourself on the Earth somewhere near the equator. 4. Set the Sun up on top of a thick book or a few thin ones. The center of the Sun must be the same height as the center of the Earth and Moon. 5. Set up the Sun, Earth, and Moon in the order shown in the figure. Turn the Earth so you are on the side away from the Sun. Turn on the Sun. Is it day or night where the model of you is? 6. Now let the Earth rotate so that "you" are on the side by the Sun. Is it day or night for you? 7. Let the Earth rotate some more until you are half way between the Sun and the Moon. What time of day is it for you? 8. Now let's see how the Moon can change things. Turn the Earth so that it is daytime for you. 9. Start the Moon revolving around the earth slowly. Watch what happens to your daylight as the Moon comes between the Earth and the Sun. What did you see? JMG-Teacher/Leader Guide: Ch. 1, pg. 19-Spinning Seeds July 2008 6 Activity ideas obtained from ACES staff and public domain materials