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My name is Niamh. My favourite space fact is there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth. That’s at least a billion trillion!
An inquiry based lesson I have done is making parachutes.
I elicited prior knowledge, asking pupils questions such as what will happen to a stone when you drop it VS what would happen to a feather if you dropped it?
Pupils stood on tables dropping various things. Firstly we discussed what way things fell, advancing on to discuss the role of weight on how fast things fall.
After deciding to use a timer to test how fast objects fell from a height, pupils were given a variety of materials to test.
Children worked in groups and were encouraged to test all the materials.
A class discussion was held discussing what worked best, encouraging pupils to give say why they think what they concluded.