Starbase Day #1

Posted by Mr. Boyer on April 30, 2009
Yesterday, we finished our first day of our fifth grade field trip, a trip to the Starbase program. The program itself lasts for four days and we will be going once a week until the school year is over. While at Starbase, we learned about Newton's Laws of Motion and did several experiments and investigations with them. Our favorite had to be by far getting to ride on the homemade hovercraft. It was so much fun.


We were also able to take a tour of the Kansas State Aviation School where we were introduced to many different types of planes and helicopters as well as got to see the new full window flight simulator. They didn't have it turned on for us to see but it was big and we got a good idea as to what it might look like.


Upon returning from our tour, our flight teams had the task of rescuing a stranded astronaut named Lt. Eggbert from space and create a craft that was safe for him to land in. We were given a small bag full of supplies and told that we could only use one hand. Our Eggberts didn't fair too well with the landing from the spacecraft that we had made. All four of them cracked and oozed while one of the eggs exploded in the bag.


All in all our first day at Starbase was a lot of fun and we can't wait to get to go back next week!

1 COMMENTS:

timmellanby said...

Hi to Mr. Boyer and all those "excited" Grade 5 students. Wow! You all certainly look like you had a great experience riding hovercraft and learning about air travel. You may have noticed I called you all "Grade 5's" instead of Fifth Graders. This seems to be a bit of a cultural difference between Canada and the United States school terminologies. I should have probably ended that last sentence with the word "eh?" so you will know for certain that I am a Canadian school teacher. I teach Grade 3 students in a small Southwestern Ontario city called Sarnia Ontario. We are famous for our location on Lake Huron ( one of our Great Lakes),at the mouth of the St. Clair River. Due to the amazing blue color of this waterway, we are known as The Bluewater area. We even have a major border crossing between Canada and the U.S. called "The Bluewater Bridge" Our town is right on the border across from the American city of Port Huron Michigan. To pinpoint us even more easily, find Detroit, Michigan and look North up the Detroit River to Lake St. Clair and finally to Lake Huron, and there we are!

I am writing to you all because I am just discovering the wiki possibilities for my own classroom, and I was checking out your awesome website.

Thanks for the contact, eh?

Sincerely,
Mr. Tim Mellanby
Johnston Memorial School
Sarnia Ontario , Canada

10:29 AM

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