Reply To: Module 3 – Stars, Space and Aliens

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Aideen Murphy
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    The activity set that I would chose is ‘Stars’. I would begin the lesson with a circle time discussion about the sky at night – what can we see? How does the night sky differ to the sky by day? I would continue by reading the story ‘How to catch a star’ by Oliver Jeffers. I would then show the children pictures of the constellations: The Big Dipper and Orion. The children would then complete an art activity. I would give them a sheet of black sugar paper and some white chalk. I would invite them to either replicate one of the constellations that we learned about or to design their own night sky featuring their own unique constellation. The children could continue their learning by using marshmallows and toothpicks to create a 3-D constellation. I would finish the lesson by singing the nursery rhyme ‘ Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’.

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