Monday 30 May 2016

Space Visit...

We all hopped on a bus and travelled into Wellington to the Space Place which can be found in the Carter Observatory.  

We sat in big, red comfy chairs in a cool cinema and watched an awesome video that played up in the ceiling!  

We started at the Sun and flew through our Solar System.  We learned that not all moons are the same, which planets could have life on them and other facts.  

After the video the ceiling lit up with stars.  We learned how to find the Southern Cross, the Scorpion and a few more.  Our favourite was the Pleiades (Matariki stars) because soon it will be the Māori New Year!






We learnt more about the 8 planets that orbit our sun (which is a humungous star!).  

After the two sessions with our guides, we were able to look at, and play with the exhibitions.  Everyone loved being able to touch and play with everything.






6 comments:

  1. It was a blast having Room 10 at the Space Place! We had a stellar time and hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. All the best, Julia and Troy

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    1. We had the best time, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!

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  2. Fantastic Post and a great description about what you did. I think its amazing that you added the photographs to your description - it looked like it must have been an awesome experience for everyone involved. What was the favourite exhibition piece that people liked to play and involve themselves with the most?
    Mr Webb and Room Three, Auroa Primary School, Taranaki.
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    1. Thank you for your comment yes it was a really cool place and we learnt a lot. Lots people went in the room that had little things that are in a spaceship like there was a display of what they ate and how they keep them self Entertained and there hygine up in space. But there was a question what I did not get answered…….. How they go to the toilet in space?

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    2. Thank you for your comment. It was fun at the planetarium learnt a lot well we were there. The thing that everyone was going in was where their was all the things they eat and what they do, and their was a cool game in there. The game was about to fly to a planet or the moon. I had a go, I was flying to pluto.Is was a cool game. Miss Hills had taken the photos and put the post altogether.

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    3. Thank you for your nice comment, it was a really cool place because everyone learned a lot of things about the planets. I wished I went on the trip for I wanted to say a question that I really wanted to ask. It was how did the big bang make everything?


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