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balloon was in our hands, we looked at the
experiments to see if our hypotheses were
correct.
We also had a week long class on learning
about space. One experiment we did was
an egg drop. Everyone made a contraption
to hold the egg. We could only use certain
things like straws, cotton balls, and a few
other things. We dropped the egg from a
certain height and we would see if it would
break. This was teaching us that it takes a lot
of support to make spacecrafts.
We also did a project about the moon. We
looked at how an why the moon changes
shape each month. We made the phases of
the moon out of Oreos, and we wrote all the
phases of the moon with each shape. We
ate the Oreos after we were done.
The next thing we did was an Edible Lunar
Rover. The Lunar Rover was made out
of food like Oreos, vanilla wafers, jumbo
marshmallows, and icing for the glue. This
project taught us what a Lunar Rover looked
like and how the astronauts used it. Since it
was edible, we ate it afterwards too!
At the very end of the year we took a field
trip to the Indianapolis Challenger Center.
We pretended we were on a mission to
the moon. Everyone had a job on different
teams. We were on the Life Support team
with two other people. Half the class was
in Mission Control and the other half of the
class was on the space shuttle. The teams
were sending each other messages to
communicate. Once we ran low on oxygen.
If we didn’t refill in 10 seconds we would fail!
All of the people were counting on us and we
refilled it on time. We were very happy