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Hi my name is Laura and I will be teaching in Junior Infants in September.
A fact about space that I find interesting is that ‘Driving a car at 70mph to the nearest star would take more than 356 billion years’!
An inquiry based activity that always is well received in Infants is the Dancing Raisins experiment. For this what you need is 2 clear glasses. In one glass you put regular water and in the other you put a clear fizzy liquid such as sparkling water or 7up, the more fizz the better. I would ask the children prior to adding in the raisins what they think will happen in each glass and if there will be a different reaction in each glass. After this discussion we will add raisins to each glass. The children will observe the raisins in the glass with the fizzy liquid begin to move/dance in the glass. After we have observed the raisins dancing we will discuss why they danced in one glass and not the other and also if we could change anything to alter the outcome. We would then test out the different ideas the children have come up with.