Hi everyone,
My name is Katie and I teach Senior Infants. My favourite space fact is that the Voyager 1 contains a golden record with pictures of Earth in case it bumps into some aliens.
An inquiry based activity I did with senior infants last year was learning about exoplanets. After learning about what they were I told them that they were going to become space explorers trying to discover new planets. I divided the class into pairs and gave each class a picture I had made on canva. The picture had a mixture of tiny stars and small circles speckled all around it. The children used flashlights to try and find the tiny circles that were new planets. When they found a planet they circled it. Afterwards the children took turns coming up to the interactive whiteboard where I had the picture on display and marked planets they had found. We ended the activity by each child coming up with a name for one of the planets they found.