Special Science Musuem Homework- Due Monday
Next week we are going to the Science Museum. Later this week you will get a letter explaining all about your visit. At the museum, we are going to see many amazing science inventions.
Your homework this week is to answer these questions below as these exhibits will be at the museum for us to view.
You might even want to find pictures of these so you can spot them at the museum. You can also answer these questions on the blog comment section if you wish.
Space Questions
- What is the ‘Eagle’ and why is it important?(hint– the lander that took astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin to the Moon in 1969)
- What is the British Black Arrow and why is it important?
- What is the United States Scout and why is it important?
- What is the Huygens module and why is it important? (hint – Visited Titan in 2005) (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cassini-Huygens/The_mission)
- What is the Beagle 2 Mars Lander and why is it important?
Flight Questions –
- What is the Antoinette monoplane and why is it important?
- What is Amy Johnson’s Gipsy Moth and why is it important?
- What is the Vickers Vimy, which first crossed the Atlantic in 1919 and why is it important?
- What is the Supermarine S6B racing seaplane and why is it important?
- What is the Hawker P1127 – which led to the Harrier jump-jet fighter and why is it important?
- What is the Boeing 747 jumbo jet and why is it important?
Making the modern world
- What is the Apollo 10 command module and why is it important?
- What is the Stephenson’s Rocket, and why is it important?
- What is the Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 1 and why is it important?
- What is the Crick and Watson’s DNA model and why is it important?
- What is penicillin and why is it important? ( from Fleming’s laboratory)
Extension – We are also going to watch an IMAX presentation called ‘A Beautiful Planet’. This film is a breath-taking portrait of the planet captured from the International Space Station. Can you find out how the film appears to three dimensional when you put on your 3d glasses? (Go to http://www.physics.org/article-questions.asp?id=56 if you need help)
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