World Space Week occurs between 4th and 10th
of October annually, and the theme for 2019 was lunar. This year I thought it
would be fun to celebrate World Space Week with the 25th Bristol Sea
Scouts and run a workshop to learn about the moon.
We had roughly 30 kids between the ages of 7 and 10 years
old, and an even mixture of boys and girls. The session was on Monday 7th October from 7pm to 8:30pm but unfortunately the sky was overcast, so we instead made 3D models of the moon and learned about the phases of the moon using torches.
We then moved on to learning about how moon craters appear
and making our own using a thick layer of flour covered with cocoa powder. We
used some fantastic resources freely available from the Science and Technology
Facilities Council here: https://stfc.ukri.org/news-events-and-publications/publications/stfc-publications-order-form/#educational/