Hi, my name is Amy and I will be teaching Junior Infants this year. This will be my fifth year teaching Junior Infants and they are a class group that I really enjoy teaching.
I really do not know much at all about space and all the different elements to it so I am looking forward to learning and gathering lots of knowledge that I can share with my students.
A fact I know about space is that if you were to travel by plane to the planet of Pluto then it would take you over 800 years to get there.
An inquiry based lesson that I have done in the past is the ‘Egg Drop Challenge’. The children were put into groups and given a variety a different materials. They then had to sit down and design a contraption that would prevent a raw egg from breaking when dropped from a a certain height. They then went about putting their designs together before we tested them to see which designs worked and which failed. The children noted and recorded the results and we worked together to figure out why some worked better than others.