Hi my name is Eimear and I teach in a vertical DEIS school. My interest in space is that I love that its vastness, blackness and planets and stars are of interest to children from infants to 6th. In my teaching I have found children in infants interested in stars and moon, and love that older children are informed about Neil Armstrong and the moon landings from the senior SESE curriculum.
from this module I loved the ‘oops’ idea as a trigger to grab children attention. I think dropping items to the ground will immediately have children immersed in the idea of gravity and how it pulls objects to earth core.
I think the framework of enquiry sets out a clear path for a lesson that allows children explore and develop ideas and then perform tests and look at data. It makes the learning experiental and allows ways to observe and record data.
I think children enjoy letting objects fall to ground and make observations of each – a feather; a school bag; a book; a marker; a liquid. Can tie in with maths through timing and speed of the fall of items and perform a fair test by dropping items from sane height and recording as video to observe.