Hi, my name is Conor and I will be teaching first class next year. My favourite space fact is that Olympus Mons on Mars is the biggest mountain/volcano in our solar system.
Here is a link to my mind map:
An inquiry based activity that I would use in my class would be the gravity inquiry.
I would first prompt the children by droping something I would then get them to have a look at various different objects, predicting how they would fall.
After that the children would carry out an investigation on each of the objects and discuss their results – Did they all fall at the same speed? which direction did they go, did they spin or float?
We would then go further by promting the children again by showing them the globe and asking how things would fall in australia? or about how things fall in water (floating and sinking) or on the moon.
We could then watch some suitable videos about gravity.