Space Journal Vol. 1
Hello Everyone!
Without a doubt, this Big Kids Club’ season has been a big challenge since I had to pick the most “relevant” facts about Space Commander Scott Kelly’s 340 day mission aboard a NASA International Space Station and believe me, everything they did seems relevant.
It is truly amazing how they manage to keep a normal life and stay healthy, because I don’t know if you know. I didn’t. But if you ever go to space that long, unless you exercise a lot every day and eat perfectly good/processed food, you are a probably going to loose lots of body muscle. Everything they eat, drink and breath is controlled 24/7. No wonder they call it a mission!
So I decided that my mission for the season was to share all of these amazing stories with the Big Kids through a real projector. A live screening of Scott Kelly’s life in space! mixed with a little bit of teaching.
Here’s a log with some of our missions and discoveries:
Mission 1 – Greetings and Exercise
Our very first screening with a 30led projector, all the kids assisted with the back screen, roof and guests. It was a great class. Even the puppy joined the class!
Mission 2 – Earth from Space
The video under the above link is worth watching, it turns out Scott Kelly has a twin brother!
Field mission at Vancouver Public Library (Central Branch) and travelled across “Awesome is Everywhere” by Neil Pasricha.
Mission 3 – Stars
We spent a few minutes following Scott Kelly’s dinner & planning routine (just click on Stars if you want to watch it!)
And right after, we started planning a hand made air plane so we could join Hopper and Wilson on their journey through space.
Mission 4 – Galaxies
For this particular mission, our hands were so busy that unfortunately there is no visual registry. However, we explored Galaxies and recreated one with a mix of blue, purple, black water-colour, corn starch and some sparkles. The result was pretty amazing, I promise I’ll try one more time and get a video of it 🙂
Mission 5 – Up there, Out there
Today was the last field mission of the month and we went back to VPL’s Central Branch but this time to explore the Green Rooms at the Inspiration Lab (3rd floor). You can simulate any scenery if you have a projector!
Maxim was very impressed to see himself on space!
Our next field mission will take place at the Mc Millan Space Centre, next March 16th from 1 – 4pm. And if you can’t make it, that’s ok, we’ll try to tell you all about it in the Journey Vol. 2!
