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Animals in the Cold & Weather *possibly link to Santa and North Pole.
I would love to do this as an Aistear topic possibly in November as I would also like to do Space (looking at planets and stars also).
I would try to do a hook which I did with my own son where some animals are stuck in ice and the children have to chip away at the ice to set them free.
We would look at some footprints and see if they could recognise which animals they come from..
They could then learn about the different animals that live there and look at how they keep warm. What is their fur? Coats. What do humans use and why?
This would then link with weather and weather in different places/countries. Try to get children to identify where the artic and Antarctic are and if they can recognise on a globe.
Some of the aistear stations which I would have: Playing with the animals in white rice (ice), role playing visiting an area to work as a scientistic and needing lots of clothes, experiment station (have ice water and fat), junk art (making animals), another station could be interactive games on white board to do with weather/animals.
Experiment: Gloves on each hand dip one in fat (don’t dip the other) and then put both in bowl with the ice and one gets colder much quicker….why? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-XLuhN7L7g
More experiments here on weather which I would change daily for the experiment section.