The ‘What Clothes to Wear’ lesson would tie in nicely to the Materials lesson I focused in on earlier. In that lesson the children did further work on what materials would not soak up a spilt liquid to what material would be used to design a waterproof coat for teddy. Further work on this topic would lead to designing coats for the different types of weather we get here in Ireland.
We would discuss the practical uses for the coats depending on the type of weather we have chosen to design it for and this would lead to a lot of discussion on different materials and designs.
I like the way that this could also tie in with the lessons based on the polar bear and penguin and how they could argue over who would fall off the Earth because of where they are living (building a simple model of the Earth) and introducing the idea of gravity as a force.
We could talk about people living in warmer and colder climates also to extend this further and design clothes that would be suitable for their climates.
There is a lot to learn in this area about our planet and how where we live on it impacts out lives in different ways.