Blast Off
Mission to Mars
- What
- Museum Staff-led
- When
- Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday
- Duration
- 30 minutes in the Energy Lab
- Year level
- Years 1 to 4
- Minmum student numbers
- Minimum 15 students
- Maximum student numbers
- Maximum 100 students
- Cost
- $9 per student + education service fee
- Booking information
- Bookings 13 11 02
Mars is our next solar system destination – but how will we get there? It really is rocket science!
Students will experience
- A show themed around a journey to Mars, exploring push, pull and gravity forces along the way
- Live demonstrations of how rockets work
- What it might be like to be in space
- Discussion and demonstrations about landing on Mars
Students will learn
- The main principle of rocket propulsion
- The early concepts of Newtonian physics, including push and pull
- About life in space
- To think of themselves as scientists and problem solvers who might one day help with space exploration
Victorian Curriculum links
Science
- The way objects move depends on a variety of factors including their size and shape: a push or a pull affects how an object moves or changes shape (VCSSU048)
- Forces can be exerted by one object on another through direct contact or from a distance (VCSSU064)
- Earth is part of a system of planets orbiting around a star (the Sun) (VCSSU078)
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