At a glance
Mini Space Shuttle is a 60 or 75 minute workshop for grade 1 and grades 3 to 7. Through role play, students relive the great milestones of space exploration, then launch their first rocket powered by hydrogen produced by splitting the water molecule.
Why do we send astronauts into space?
Through role play, we discover the great milestones of space exploration, with plenty of laughs!
Then your apprentice astronauts live an experience that is one small moment in their day, but a giant leap in their life as scientists: launching their first rocket, powered by hydrogen produced by splitting the water molecule!
They’ll have stars in their eyes!
Learning goals (elementary)
- Understand how the race to space unfolded over the decades.
- Understand what atoms and molecules are.
- Watch water mixed with citric acid break down chemically.
- Test the principle of action and reaction.
