Hi
With a junior infant class in mine I will do the activity based on Alien Chemistry.
We will start off the lesson by showing the children the front cover of the book The Dinosaur That Pooped A Plant by Tom Fletcher. This will be our starting discussion point using a series of higher and lower order questions.
I will then read the book to the class, pausing and discussing as we go along. This will be done over one or two lessons. As their is a mention of “Martians” this will lead us onto to the next part of our lesson Alien Chemistry where we will conduct our experiment Dancing Raisins.
There will be lots of discussion and predictions with the teacher acting as scribe. We will then carry out the experiment. We will discuss our findings and we will conclude the lesson with thr children illustrating the experiment we carried out.
Thanks