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The activity I would choose is “The man on the moon”. For junior infants I would introduce the concept of the moon and ask them what the prior knowledge is. I would use the rhyme suggested as a nice starter activity and the idea of the white piece of paper representing the moon and the shapes we can see on the moon. If possible we could go out and observe the morning moon. I would then use the images provided to give the children a variety of images to use. Next I would play the video paxi & the moon phases. We would observe how the moon rotates around the earth and how the phases of the moon appear differently based on depending on the hemisphere in which you live. I think this is of great interest to children. A san art lesson we could make a paper mache model of the moon using a balloon and use this as a stimulus to discuss the different shapes we see on the moon.