These activity sets are filled with ideas for the classroom. One activity set that I am particularly interested in using is the Stars activity set. Following the Curious Minds Framework for Inquiry, I have tried this lesson before and found it worked really well. Our inquiry was based on wondering ‘How to catch a star’.
Engage: Read ‘How to catch a star’ by Oliver Jeffers. Start a discussion on the stars and land on the ‘I wonder’ question: ‘I wonder…How can we catch a star?’.
Investigate: Allow the children to think and wonder and come up with ideas on how we can catch a star. Previously, I had children suggest that we blast a rocket into space and reach out to catch a star, land on the moon and wait until a star falls, etc. Most of the time, their ideas involve flying into outer space. The children can then, in groups, design and make a rocket that we can use to blast into space and catch a star!