Hello Year 6Welcome to Science
My name is Miss Davenport and I am one of the science teachers at Stanley High School.
I am going to be providing you with some nice little activities to introduce you to high school science.
Everyone will have completed different amounts of science in primary school, so we will be enjoying activities that hopefully we will be able to link to real life and the world around us.
Completing work
• If you would like to complete any of these tasks, you can either print out the work sheet
provided, edit the worksheet on the computer, create your own document on the
computer or write and draw on your own paper.
• If you would like to send me the work you could email any electronic documents to me or
take pictures of any hand written documents and email the pictures. If you cannot email
me you can save until you come to school in year 7 to show me.
• I would love to see your work. The email address to send it to is
• If you do not want to complete the tasks in the presentation there is a great short story
to read and a maze to complete.
Task 1 - What is Science?
In high school we study science in three main groups:
Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.
Science is the study of the world around us, even the things we cannot see or touch.
Biology
Biology is the study of living things.
In biology we study how the human body works to keep us alive. We also study about plants and how they work to stay alive and grow.Biology is also the study of living things that you cannot see like our cells that we are made of, bacteria, viruses and fungus. We learn to use a microscope to study these as it allows us to see things you cannot see with just using your eyes. We study how medicines are made and how we come to look like we do.
Chemistry
Chemistry is the study of matter (stuff) and how new things can be made with chemical reactions.
In chemistry we study about matter (stuff). We look at how solids, liquids and gases behave and then use this information to make new things using chemical reactions. We also study atoms, which is what all matter (stuff, things) are made of.In chemistry scientists used chemical reactions to make new medicines and everyday products like soap, ink and clothes.We can also measure the amount of energy in different foods.
Physics
Physics is the study of how the universe behaves.
In physics we study the universe, space, stars and time. We study how things move and the forces needed to make things move. The study of electricity and magnets is also part of physics along with the study of earthquakes.In physics you study atoms and how they behave and this links to biology and chemistry.
This week we will look at Space flight
We will look at:
1. The recent rocket launch
2. Designing our own rocket
3. How we are inspired by science.
Tesla and SpaceX
Elon Musk is a billionaire business man who started the
company Tesla in 2003. The company is probably most famous to you for making the
Tesla Cars.
He has changed the way we travel on roads in cars and wanted to do the same with space.
You may have heard of his company which is changing the way we will now travel to space.
It is called SpaceX.
Space flight history
NASA’s Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken rodeskyward aboard a white-and-black, bullet-shapedDragon capsule on top of a Falcon 9 rocket,lifting off at 3.22 pm local time from the samelaunch pad used to send Apollo crews to the Moon50 years ago. Minutes later, they slipped safelyinto orbit.
The capsule, which the astronauts named Endeavour, docked safely at the InternationalSpace Station on Monday morning Australian time.
A rocket ship built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company thundered away from Earth with twoAmericans on Saturday, beginning a new era in commercial* space travel.
Glossary: Commercial* = A company that is not owned by the government.
The link below shows the launch if you missed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22BXPLkyocw
Task 2 - QUICK QUIZIf you like quizzes listen to the link below then see if you can answer
the quiz questions. You can write your answers on a piece of paper or on the worksheet.
https://soundcloud.com/user-310679086/new-recording-222
1.How does the Dragon capsule get up into space?
2.Where are the astronauts going?
3.What are the astronauts’ names?
4.Why is it newsworthy that this launch is in the US?
5.How many seats are in the Dragon capsule?
Here is a diagram of the new SpaceX rocket and it’s main parts.
Task 3 - Rocket Design
Remember when designing your rocket to think about the
following:
1. The shape of the rockets nose.
2. What the rocket is made from and why you chose this.
3. How many fins it will have.
4. The size and shape of the fins.
Don’t forget to name your rocket and put your name
on your work.
I know that some of you would love to design your own rocket.
You could do this by drawing your design on a piece of paper and telling us about it and how certain
parts work and what they are used for.
Or you could make a model of a rocket and take a picture and send it to us.
Task 4 - Inventions from space travel
Camera PhonesIn he 1990s NASA needed cameras which were small enough to fit on a spacecraft, but had excellent picture quality.
Athletic shoes (Trainers)Nike Air trainers would not have been invented if a former space engineer had not pinched the idea from NASAs designs.
Wireless HeadsetsNASA was the first at making communication technology tat was wireless so that the astronauts could move around hands-free without wires.
These are just a few of the inventions that were developed
due to space travel.
See if you can find 2 or 3 more and tell me what they are.
A good website to use is https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?id=11358
Thank you and I hope you enjoyed your science
lesson. See you again soon.
