Your Science Experiment in Space: YouTube Space Lab!

"YouTube Space Lab is about space. We believe that space is more exciting and accessible than ever. On this channel, you can discover space by watching the amazing videos we find from across YouTube. If you're 14-18 years old, we're also challenging you to come up with a science experiment which could be streamed live on YouTube from the International Space Station, along with other great prizes. Some incredible partners and a distinguished panel of expert judges from around the world are helping to make this happen." from the YouTube Space Lab.

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Space Study with Dragon

Dragon and I finished our space study that we started in February. It was a nice little study using the Usborne First Encyclopedia of Space and a workbook called Let's Discover Space.
We have both enjoyed learning more about space, planets, satellites, space missions, aliens....

Dragon enjoyed a few websites that were suggested from the Usborne book. Here are a few of his favourites:

*The ESA (European Space Agency) has a great kids website where you can learn more about space and print a Hipparcos globe or some satellites.

*The Tech Museum of Inovation has a Satellite Site where you can build your own satellite online. There are 3 different kinds and it also gives explanations as you are building.

*For fun, we also liked this Arthur site "Alien: Assembly Required" .

*Last is a BBC site "Your Travel Guide to the Solar System" where you can watch videos about each planet. I personally like this one because it is set up as a travel guide, with sections called "Reasons to Visit", "What to See", and "Local History".

Studying Space with Dragon

Last week was the beginning of our Space Study for science with Dragon. He has been asking to do this for a while now, so I finally woke up and decided to put our regular "textbook" science curriculum aside! I am already enjoying learning about space along with him.
I am using the Usborne First Encyclopedia of Space as a spine, and he uses this great little colouring/activity/sticker book that has lots of facts for him to read aloud.

Today's topic was the solar system and through the Usborne book links, we found a great site, an interactive virtual model of the solar sytem. Check it out here and click on "launch planet 10".