Space: the final frontier workshop rocketed into Pimlico
Duke Study Club’s cosmos connoisseur Jackie Lewis steered a fun, interactive and free workshop for our mini members last week. The hot tickets sold out a week in advance and the budding astronauts met at a Dukes venue in Pimlico for ‘Space: the final frontier’. The event covered everything from the planets in our Solar System to the life cycle of stars, even incorporating how the universe began. The Dukes Club children also learnt about natural satellites, galaxies and the importance of gravity in the cosmos. They worked in groups to design and build projectile rockets followed by a competition to see whose could travel the furthest and why. They discovered where there might be life elsewhere in our galaxy and designed their own alien life form. Armed with everything they had learnt, the children were set with the final task of applying all this knowledge and investigating the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope in order to identify different features such as stellar and planetary nebulas, spiral and elliptical galaxies, and stars at different stages of their lives. It was a jam-packed morning full of fascinating space facts, fun activities and interesting investigations.
Visit our Club Events page for more information on our free Dukes Study Club holiday activities for parents and children.
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