Hi my name is Mark and I will be teaching 5th class this year, however, I have recently moved from a senior school (3rd to 6th) to one that has junior infants right up to 6th. Therefore a course specifically dealing with teaching junior classes appealed to me.
My favourite space fact is one popularised by Carl Sagan. It is that there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on all of Earth’s beaches. While I have since heard that this may not be true, I still love it and use it to try to contextualise the vastness of space to the children in my class.