Hi everyone, My name is Kayleigh and I am teaching Senior Infants in September. I love the fact Saturn’s rings are 90% water.
I would love to use the inquiry based activity like we saw in this module with the missing sweets in the jar and fingerprinting! I thought this lesson was excellent and so engaging for all class levels. I think it is so sweet to see a group of students with little magnifying glasses working on their fingerprint. I had completely forgot about this lesson until i was reminded in this module. I’m definitely learning that science doesn’t need to be so difficult and overwhelming. Breaking it into mini-lessons has definitely helped me to fit more science in over the years! One lesson I might do with my class in September would be missing prizes from our prize box. We would make a mind map of what we already know. I would then show a picture of a fingerprint and we would explore fingerprinting, the science behind it and do similar activities to what we seen in the slides here. We would expand it to talk about the fingerprints of twins in our class and look at all the patterns and details of our prints.