Module 4:
Activity: keeping warm
I will introduce the topic of animals keeping warm by reading the storybook ‘Big Bear, Little Bear’ by David Bedford & Jane Chaptman. I will explain to the children that we will be learning about Polar Bears. I will ask them what they first know about polar bears. I will then read the storybook. We will then discuss what life is like for a polar bear in the Artic. I will get the children to tell me what additional information we now know about polar bears. I will then show the children real photos of polar bears in the wild. I will ask them what they notice about the colour of their skin? Why do they think it is white? What effect does this have?
We will then create our own polar bears using painted paper plates. We will then display this around our artic classroom board. We will write up facts we have learnt about the polar bears around the board.
I feel with the new maths curriculum, there is now a renewed focus on stem in schools at present. It is very easy to integrate stem across lots of subject such as aistear activities, maths. Stem could easily be a priority for schools through the SSE evaluation process.