I think I would like to try the activity set based on the planets in a lesson for the upcoming school year. I feel the class I will have in September will greatly benefit from such active learning. They are a class that love being active and PE and by playing the planet game, dancing the planet dance and spinning their own planet they would feel there is a connection between learning and being active when they are learning science facts.
The song ‘Family of the Sun’ is a familiar tune for them to learn some facts about the planets. As I work in a Gaelscoil I would have to translate this to Irish but that is a task that happens a lot in a Gaelscoil. They would also enjoy the rap ‘We are the planets’ and I feel this song would also give me an opportunity to link our planet lessons with English lessons.