Hi , my name is Orla and an interesting space fact which is so simple is that the sun is a star! It’s my4th year teaching a multi grade JI and SI class and they still find this fact fascinating !
enquiry based activity about space :
All stars are not white ? True or false
first we need discover what a star is ? We could extend this by finding out the size of the largest, smallest star , any names of stars that are familiar eg the sun!
next we can discover what colours stars can be. Red, yes slow, whit
e and blue and what these colours represent, red is hot, yellow is hotter , white is even hotter and blue is the hottest ! The children can first predict which colour is the hottest. Using clay and play dough we can then make different coloured stars to represent our new knowledge