Hi my name is Laura and I am going into my second year of teaching Junior Infants. My favourite space fact is that, there are more stars in space than grains of sand on all of the beaches on Earth.
A inquiry based lesson I love is, using the book How to Catch a Leprechaun by Adam Wallace. I have conducted this lesson in junior infants all the way up to second class and the children’s ideas never fail to amaze me. I use the book as a stimulus, following the story the children brainstorm, plan and design their traps (in groups or individually). Once the children are happy with their traps, they can use a variety of materials to bring it to life. To conclude the children discuss their trap to the class and explain how it works, this promotes scientific talk and ideas.I love how you can integrate the lesson with so many curricular areas e.g., procedural writing in English.