[Orla Byrne]

I will definitely incorporate this into my aliens lesson , I only ever think of bicarbonate of soda for volcanos  and they are so bored of that

[Orla Byrne]

Topic The Moon : cross curricular links : literacy, art, maths, SESE, PE

 

start with the story What ever next by Jill Murphy . This story is about a bear that wants to go to the moon, it discusses what he needs to get there and who he sees along the way and what the moon is like ! In class  The children could think about if someone wanted to go to the moon in real life, who would go, what would they need to get there. What would the moon look like? Would anyone else be there  This could then lead onto a lesson about the moon , what it looks like, how far away it is, is there anything on the moon, has man ever been to the moon. The children could brainstorm their questions prior to this and then answer the questions together. Using clay the children could make a clay moon . Using junk art , the children could make rockets and try fly them standing on a chair. For PE we could learn the song and Dane to zoom zoom zoom we are going to the moon , then move around as aliens, astronauts , shooting stars etc

[Orla Byrne]

What a great idea , we’ve drawn around our shadows before with chalk but never thought of creating a sun dial , thank you for the inspiration

[Orla Byrne]

Hi , my name is Orla and an interesting space fact which is so simple is that the sun is a star! It’s my4th year teaching a multi grade JI and SI class and they still find this fact fascinating !

 

enquiry based activity about space :
All stars are not white ? True or false

first we need discover what a star is ? We could extend this by finding out the size of the largest, smallest star , any names of stars that are familiar eg the sun!
next we can discover what colours stars can be. Red, yes slow, whit

e and blue and what these colours represent, red is hot, yellow is hotter , white is even hotter and blue is the hottest ! The children can first predict which colour is the hottest.  Using clay and play dough  we can then make different coloured stars to represent our new knowledge

[Orla Byrne]

The children will love this fact thank you !

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