Hi There, my name is Susan and I teach in Dublin. My favorite space fact is that it takes nearly three days to travel to the moon. I have visited Kennedy Space Centre many times and touched moon rock each time. It is an amazing place.
I love to do floating and sinking with infant classes. I use different materials – an orange (both peeled and unpeeled), play doh in a ball and shaped as a thumb pot, a stone, a tick, a pen, a pencil, a bottle, other items from around the class. Infants love water play and it leads very naturally to the ideas of waterproof items and waterproof clothing. At infant level, I start by telling the class that I can do magic. When we finish the lesson I remind them that I said I could do magic and now so can they. A magician is just a scientist.