Hello everyone, my name is Caoimhe and I teach senior infants.
I don’t know a lot about space but hope to learn a lot more over the duration of this course but one fact that I read about is that the International Space Station takes 90 minutes to complete an orbit of Earth.
An inquiry based activity that I would use in my infant classroom would be based on the Esero support document “What does gravity do?”. We could investigate using the prompt activity “oops I dropped it” to compare the effects of gravity on various objects. These objects could come from what is already available in the classroom. The activity is broken down into several parts, ensuring that the children engage, investigate, take the next step and that the teacher reflects on their learning. The use of collecting and interpreting data would be a useful link to the maths curriculum.