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Engage: I would engage the children by reading The First Hippo on the Moon by Davis Walliams or Ted’s Great Space Adventure by Elizabeth Avery or watch the cartoon episode of Paddington on Netflix about space.
Wondering and Exploring:
We would explore how dinky toys move on different surfaces using different force and wonder how rockets make it into space.
Rocket Mouse – children would each make a rocket mouse and see how high they can propel him/her, wonder how to exert force to make it fly higher.
Balloon Rocket – as a class we would set up a balloon rocket and wonder depending on the amount of air in the balloon how far/fast it will travel.
Next step: look at other objects that fly.
In PE look at objects we can propel and which one travels the furthest and (maths) measure using a metre stick.
I agree Milo and Marvin is excellent and I had my son looking over my shoulder wanting to take pictures of the various excellent experiments!
Where do you live?
Start by reading The Three Little Pigs then encourage the children to describe the homes of well known characters like the Three Little Pigs, witch in Hansel and Gretel, Cinderalla, Elsa and Anna etc.
Use worksheet/images of different homes to start a discussion about children’s own homes. Each child draw their home.
Use these drawings to help make models of homes from plasticine. Set homes up to make a village scene using crepe paper… Discuss with the children what else they would see if they were in a village, take our local village as an example. Make a list of their suggestions and when finished assign each child something to make like trees, supermarket, bank, schools…
Set the extra buildings etc into the village scene. Discuss how each building etc is important to them.
Finish by reading the book All Kinds of Homes by Emma Damon thinking about homes people live in in other parts of the world.
I would begin by discussing how many stars they think are in the sky using pom poms and children themselves to represent stars we would look at 5, 10, 30. We would look at a picture of a starry night and discuss whether there are more than the pom poms we have in containers. We would then paint a starry sky using splatter paint.
I would read Laura’s Star by Klaus Baumgart and talk about what a star is, what they are made of and how far away they are.
I would show them pictures of different constellations and then focus on the plough. Discuss what they see and show them pictures of ploughs and discuss how together that’s what people long ago saw.
In pairs using straws and plasticine they would make the plough constellation/using black card, tin foil and wool
.I would finish by reading The Lost Stars by Hannah Cumming and discuss what it would be like if there were no stars.
Module 2 The Moon
Use the story The First Hippo on the Moon by Davis Walliams as stimulus for lesson. Read story and have discussion about the moon and what they think the moon looks like. Ask all children to draw a picture of the moon.
Show children white circle, crescent shape and sphere which do they feel looks like the moon. Have discussion about the moon and how it looks from Earth. Set task of drawing what the moon looks like on the same day for 4 wks.
Have a picture of the moon with craters get them to look closely noticing size difference. Discuss how they think the craters were formed.
Using sand or flour and a variety of flour allow children time to drop balls and notice what happens the surface. Discuss how some balls make bigger/smaller craters, some are deeper etc.
Refer back to 4wk tracking of the moon. Discuss what children have drawn and discovered. Use phases of the moon pictures in resources to sequence the phases of the moon.
Play the story The Night the Moon went Missing (youtube)
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.
