Hi I’m Aoife and I have been teaching 3rd & 4th class for the past number of years. This coming September I will enter into a mixed junior & senior infants class.
My favourite science fact is that human teeth are just as strong as shark teeth! The children were given a task towards the end of the year in my class to complete a science experiment or conduct research into one area and this was something a child told us. How interesting!
Inquiry based learning in science is effectively done through science experiments. This allows children to ask themselves questions throughout about what might happen next or what they could do differently next time. An experiment that I conducted with my class was creating a parachute for an egg. The children were then asked to drop the egg from a height. If their parachute worked their egg wouldn’t break. Children participated in groups and it was so interesting to watch their thought processes throughout.