For the first one we looked at the scientist and inventor Christopher Cockerell who lived and worked around East Anglia. We started by looking into one of his main inventions - the hovercraft, making our own hovercrafts to test out and then we found out about Christopher Cockerell's life.
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Everyone drew a face and put it on the floor, on top of large sheets of paper. We then used a spray bottle to act as a mouth and sprayed the bottle twice, in front of the faces, like we had just sneezed. The children then went to check on their ‘face’ and see if any of the sneeze had gone over them, if it had they circled the droplets in red. The children noticed that the sneezes reached right to the end of the sheet!
We then put a hand in front of the mouth when we ‘sneezed’ again. This time the droplets were circled in blue, the sneeze didn’t reach as far as it had the first time.
Finally we ‘sneezed’ agin with a tissue in front of the mouth, this time there were very few droplets on the faces to circle!
We then talked about how important it was to try and sneeze into a tissue so the tissue could be thrown away afterwards but realised we didn’t always have tissues on us so decided that if we had to sneeze into our hands we must go and wash our hands afterwards.