Hi, my name is Rachael and I’m working in a junior school as a SET teacher. I think it’s cool that worms have 5 hearts! We do a lot of Math and Literacy based in class so a lot of the time I’m combining Math and Science lessons together.
My favourite inquiry based lesson to do in school and at home is floating and sinking. An oldie, a classic but you can elicit so much from the children and they usually have a lot of previous knowledge on the topic because of water play in the infants classrooms. I like to introduce this by talking about different objects and predicting if they’re going to float or sink and discussing the language of floating and sinking, like what does it actually mean. I usually bring in the kid’s experiences of swimming in the discussion. We observe and investigate what happens when the children place different classroom items in the water like rubbers, rulers all different materials and heavy and light items. We’ll discuss our findings and take note of them. Usually we would watch a video at the end to sum up our findings.