Filming a 'meteor strike' from a 'moonbuggy'

 

4th class studied electricity last year and learned how to make electrical circuits. 

Using this knowledge each person in the class took home some basic electrical parts (motor, cables with crocodile clips, wheels)  over the Easter holiday with a view to making a 'moonbuggy', a moving vehicle that could carry a camera, analogous to the moonbuggy used on the Apollo space missions.

We hoped to put a phone in our moonbuggy and record a 'meteor' landing on the moon (our science experiment, see science blog.

Here is our 'moonbuggy' (Louie' work)

And here is our meteor landing