My name is Aoife and I have been teaching in a Deis school for 20 years.
An interesting Space fact is that Mars has a volcano bigger than the entire state of Hawaii!!
Two years ago I had Junior Infants and I remember doing an activity based on the Stars and the children really enjoyed it and the activity at the end,
Topic- The Stars
Beginning of the lesson- Sing the song ‘Twinkle, twinkle little star’ with the children.
Middle of the lesson- Talk about the song …..drawing their attention to the words: How I wonder what you are?’ What are stars? Can we name any
stars? What do stars do? Why do we call some people Superstars?! How
many stars do we think are in the night sky? Why can we see lots of
stars some nights and very few on other nights?
Conclusion- Each child will design their own star and we will create our own milky way on a huge sheet of black card.