Space Station Dramatic Play
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Take your space station dramatic play center out of this world! Add a mission control board to your space shuttle (this one, of course, incorporates math skills with tallies, ten frames, counting dots, and numbers). Make astronaut food in plastic bags with these labels. Have students collect moon rocks from an alphabet grid and use the recording sheet to measure, weigh, and draw their findings. Build a satellite from recyclable materials. Use your telescope to make observations from the moon - including real space photographs to add to their learning! Learn about different equipment that astronauts need with a diagram, and so much MORE! Perfect for a space theme in your preschool classroom!
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Includes:
- Space Station sign (both color and black & white)
- labels for the various areas in the dramatic play center (Satellite, Lunar Rover, Moon, and Space Shuttle)
- Launch Checklist
- Command Center dashboard
- 6 Flight Plans with pre-writing lines to trace
- Mission Report (to show different activities to do on the moon)
- Mission Control Math Board with Mission Cards Tallies 1-10 (both color and black & white)
- Astronaut Food sign for tray & "Don't forget to wash your hands!" sign
- astronaut food labels (crackers, oatmeal, almonds, tortillas, turkey, casserole, peas, orange drink, and cookies)
- Moon Rock Observations (recording sheet for letters, coordinate grid, and blank, moon rulers, astronaut cards A-Z and 1-5, Moon Rock Observations label)
- Moon Observations checklist
- telescope printout
- photographs of space vocabulary (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, satellite, star, constellation, comet, asteroid, moon rock, and astronaut)
- Build a Satellite diagram
- Astronaut Equipment diagram (with/without words; color/black & white)
Materials needed for this space dramatic play center:
- table & chairs
- space shuttle backdrop or black butcher paper
- shelf (to create an cozy space shuttle and to store all the supplies for this dramatic play set)
- 3 cookie sheets
- clipboards
- dry erase markers
- headphones
- binder rings
- magnets
- 9 plastic bags
- orange, green, brown, and white pompoms
- tan and brown felt
- small cupcake tin
- masking tape
- dry erase markers
- recyclables
- lamination
Check out more THEMED PRESCHOOL ACTIVITIES!
- Alphabet
- Apples
- Bees
- Christmas
- Community Helpers
- Construction
- Dinosaurs
- Earth Day
- Fairy Tale
- Fall
- Farm
- Garden
- Halloween
- Insects
- “Jack and the Beanstalk”
- Me & My Family
- Nocturnal Animals
- Nursery Rhymes
- Ocean
- Pets
- Pond
- Space
- Spring
- Summer
- Thanksgiving
- Transportation
- USA
- Valentine’s Day
- Weather
- Wild West
- Winter
- Zoo
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