Hello, my name is Lauren. I will be working in the MGLD class in September, with ages varying from 5 to 8. My favourite space fact is that some planets have no surface to land on. An inquiry based activity that I often do is the ‘Dancing Raisons’ experiment. For the equipment, you will need two clear glasses, one glass filled with still water and the other glass filled with sparkling. I then ask the children what they think will happen in each glass before adding the raisons; will they sink of float. When the raisons are added to the glass with fizzy water, they appear to dance as they float up and down. We then have a whole class discussion on why the raisons ‘danced’ in the glass with fizzy water and discuss that the increase in buoyancy helps the raisons to become less dense than the fizzy water.