Hi my name is Anna. I teach Junior Infants! My favourite fact about Space that my pupil’s always love is that one million Earths can fit inside the sun.
One of my favourite enquiry based learning lessons to see the students critical thinking skills is floating and sinking. The students are provided with a variety of materials and using critical thinking they must figure out which objects float/sink and why this might happen. The children make predictions and then carry out the experiment. The lesson is child-centred and encourages collaborative learning/thinking. The results provide a stimulus for our lesson about why objects float/sink. The students are able to explain their logic/reasoning in the end for their predictions and see if they match the results.