The Cosmic Classroom Video

Watch the first 8'50 minutes of the video and answer these questions:

1  Which things do you see Tim do?

2  Which two questions do the children ask Tim?

3  What are Tim's answers to these questions?

4  What is beautiful about Africa from space?




Key:
1  He crouches down and spins around and touches his toes.

2  What can you see out of your windows?   Why doesn't space have any gravity?

3  He can see the Atlantic Ocean and the coast of Africa.
Space does in fact have gravity but the spaceship moves so fast that it doesn't hit earth.

4  The desert areas - the Sahara Desert - and the beautiful colours.