My name is Eimear and I teach senior infants. I recently completed a dissertation on the use of picture books to promote IBL for science investigations. we read picture books that linked to teaching the children about materials. This led to lots of child led discussions where they came up with that experiments they wanted to do. It was amazing to see the children take autonomy over their learning.
My favourite space fact is that there are apparently more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on the Earth!