Lerryn Get Excited About Voyager 13 Sep 2013
After learning all about the NASA Voyager missions this morning, children in Lerryn Class were fascinated by the idea of a gold plated record which carried information about Earth and humanity into interstellar space. They thought about what they would have put on the gold plated record. Here are some of their ideas, and amazingly, they are very similar to the information, images and sounds that ACTUALLY appear on the disc:
Pictures of sea animals
Cars
Animals of Earth
How far away our planet is from the sun
Picture of constellations we can see from Earth
Picture of ourselves
Pictures of technology (iPads, computers etc)
Film of spaceships being launched
Pictures of cities
Our pets
Fields and flowers – the natural world
Songs and music
Picture of a teddy and toys
Ideas about children and how we care for them
Information about the food we eat
People’s houses
Photo of the Earth from space
Letters and writing
Afterwards, we wrote some acrostic poems. Here’s Ethan’s:
Voyager 1 launched nearly 40 years ago
On an interstellar mission.
Years on
Aliens may listen to a golden record
Going on an
Electronic disc.
Recordings of aliens might be filmed in the future.
