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The topic I have chosen for this module is the Stars.
As I have previously said I love looking at the stars but I have just returned to the classroom this year after many years of job sharing so my teaching experience of the solar system has been very limited.
I suppose if I were to teach a lesson about stars I would begin by reading the book How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers which is also available on YouTube as a read aloud book. we could learn out the various constellations via YouTube videos understanding that stars are huge balls of burning gas far away in space. We could make our own constellations by placing silver stars on by cards and the naming the and sharing them with the class.
I remember serval years ago we had a company/organisation visit the school, they had an inflatable dome shaped bouncy castle and the kids lay down inside and they projected the different constellations and told the kids all about them and the kids were mesmerised by it, it was fab and it’s something I’d love to look into doing again