My name is Rachael and I will be teaching junior infants in September. An interesting fact about space is that it is silent.
Inquiry based lesson I have taught before was creating a model of space using the children themselves. Children were given a planet, star, sun, moon- that they had to become for the model. In order to recreate the solar system they had to investigate as much as they could about their part. What it looks like, how big it is, where it is situated in relation to the sun, does it spin and if so what direction. Questions arose like what does the inside of earth look like which prompted an investigation and discussion about the earth’s crust, the inner and outer core etc. We then created our life picture of the solar system and performed this for our school at assembly.