Year 5 Adventure in Space - Corpus Christi Primary Academy

Art/DT
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Design space
Music
sta-
tion / rocket’
Planet models
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Oroscope Orary’
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Star patterns
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Design own planet
Exploding planets
Design space suit
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Planet Suite—Holst
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Space themes (Star Wars)
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Compose a theme for journey
History
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Space—Sputniks/space shuttle/space flight/landing on moon
July 1969
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First black woman to travel to space (Black History Month)
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Astronauts/cosmonauts—timeline
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Sputnik
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Space race
Geography
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‘Space Footprint’
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Uri Gargarin
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Map of moon?
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Satellite garbage
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What did they take—Compare how its changed
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Sea of Tranquility
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Light pollution
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Map of solar system/
Year 5
Science
galaxy (distance)
Adventure in
Space
PE
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Design a ‘javelin’ rocket
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‘Gravity’ Dance—6x lighter on moon
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Acted out the planes and how they moved
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Exercises astronauts need to do whilst in space
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Sun—length of year
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Moon– shadows—stages
(lunar)
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Sessons
Literacy Links
MFL
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Languages of
astronauts/
cosmonauts
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Names of planets
in French
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Space travel/brochure
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Stars
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Planets—factfiles
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Gravity impact
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Food eaten during space
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Written comparison of luxuries
taken to space—how its
changed
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Newspaper report of landing on
the moon—film report
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Non-Chronological report about
space
ICT Links
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What is life like in space?
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Lost in Space Adventure
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Planet factfiles
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Space buddies
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‘Iron Giant’
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Biographies of astronauts
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Link with America/NASA
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Diary of astronaut
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How do astronauts
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Watch a rocket take off
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Max Goes to Mars Book—
implications of sending animals
into space
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Space poem
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Midnight fox
Highway man
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Advert for becoming an
survive?
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