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This is a fantastic lesson with lots of lovely engaging elements. Lucky children. I particularly like the aspect of the inflating balloon. The children would be very engaged.
The activity I would choose is “The man on the moon”. For junior infants I would introduce the concept of the moon and ask them what the prior knowledge is. I would use the rhyme suggested as a nice starter activity and the idea of the white piece of paper representing the moon and the shapes we can see on the moon. If possible we could go out and observe the morning moon. I would then use the images provided to give the children a variety of images to use. Next I would play the video paxi & the moon phases. We would observe how the moon rotates around the earth and how the phases of the moon appear differently based on depending on the hemisphere in which you live. I think this is of great interest to children. A san art lesson we could make a paper mache model of the moon using a balloon and use this as a stimulus to discuss the different shapes we see on the moon.
Love this lesson and the idea of tracing the animals with chalk. Very engaging and infant friendly. Lets hope the weather plays ball for a change.
Hi, my name is Brenda and I am currently teaching infants. I am looking forward to completing this course as Space is topic I struggle with. I find it’s a very engaging topic for the children so I would like to improve my teaching methodologies for the future. My favourite space fact is the moon is not actually round, it is shaped like a lemon.
An enquiry based lesson I have conducted in infants was planting bulbs and observing how different variables affect growth such as the amount of light, soil and water. The children planted the blubs and we blocked the light access of one plant by placing it in a dark storage press, we didn’t water one and one we looked after as normal. We observed all the results and compiled it into a chart which the children used to present the results to the senior infant classes. The children really enjoy this lesson and couldn’t wait to get into the classroom in the morning to observe the plants daily and observe and discuss the results and findings.
