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Hi there, My name is Siobhan and I teach in an all boys’ school. The pupils love all things space. My interesting fact is the Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun and 400 times closer to Earth.
Class: Stem Investigation: Moon Crater
Introduction: I would start by introducing the children to the storybook Bring Down the Moon by Jonathan Emmett. This will help to spark a discussion with what we see in the sky at night. We will then discuss what we know about the moon and hat the surface of the moon looks like.
Stem investigation: We will recreate the moon surface by using white floor on a baking dish, and we will then drop objects into the flour bowl. This will recreate the moon surface. We will then drop a variety of bouncy ball, marbles onto the surface. We will discuss how this changes the moon surface as we drop the object. We will then use tweezer to remove the object without damaging the surface further.
We will then compare this to the surface of the moon by using real pictures of the moon surface. The children will then have an opportunity to draw their own moon surface and see how they are similar and different to the moon surface itself.