Hi my name is Valerie. I’ll be teaching 1st class in September. My own kids love space so I read and discuss it with them and wanted to learn more for them and my teaching. One of my favourite facts about space is that astronauts can jump 4 metres on the moon! Not so favourite info is how much litter we have left behind on the moon!
An enquiry based lesson I did with 5th class was when we were looking at composting. We wanted to see what would happen to different materials if they were composted. So we got lots of glass jars and collected a variety of material like paper, card, a marble, orange skin, apple core… We put some soil in the jars, put in the item and covered with soil. WE discussed their predictions. We prayed the contents of the jars lightly every week. After three months we turned out each jar to find out what had happened to the contents. Had they broken down completley, partially or no change.
This helps children realise the impact we are having on the planet.