Class Plan for space week:
Drama:
Go Stargazing. The children can wear pyjamas. Wake up to a dark classroom with Stellarium on the board and sketch what they see. They can use props like telescopes.
They will then come up with a plan to catch a star (Based on Oliver Jeffers’ How to Catch a Star). They will build their rockets, pack for space and step into their rockets for their journey to space.
Afterwards out of role we will discuss if our plans would actually work. Why/ why not.
English:
Write postcards home from space.
Write shape poems in the shape of rockets (inspired by a participant post in the forum)
Play an oral language barrier game (space themed)
Write a procedural How to Catch a Star/ How to Brush your Teeth in Space etc
Come up with questions to ask an astronaut
Irish: space vocab, stories and drama
Maths: decode riddles sent by an alien to us (sums to decode/ shapes to decode etc based on maths topic)
History: The Moon Landing, could then link with moon content from these modules such as the flour crater activity
Geography: Life on Earth, what clothes would we wear to space, does space have weather?
Science: Rocket experiment/ crater experiment/ gravity
Art: design rockets/ clay aliens/ papier mache solar systems, splatter paining stars
Music: Space themed percussion and singing
PE: Space themed dance