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Once again another great module with such great ideas for next years teaching.
I am going to do the hand on activities Rockets.
I would read the book Aliens in Underpants to the children to get them engage in the new topic. I would move on to the rockets and show them a picture or a 3D model of a rocket. I would make sure the children understand the concept of rocket.
than i would collect different size bottles and show the children how to make mouse rockets. the children will experiment with the different size bottle and see how far the mouse will go further with what bottle.
If the children were highly motivated i would also do the balloon rocket and do the same concept and see does the size of the bottle matter for the rocket to go further.
I love the fact that the children are always hands on and learning at the same time
I would also chose the hand on activities. Children love when they can get involved with the experiment. I love that these activities are easy to set up and can lead to other teaching opportunities.
Activities: Where do we live?
I would have the children bring in photos of their house /or to bring in some history pictures of houses from their local village and what the house were like than. the children can compare what’s the same and what is different.
After having this discussion i would get material that match what we were talking about. the children can build the past and present village.
You can continue to weather and how might clothes that was worn for each weather. You can also include the past and present clothes to show them the same and different the clothes were.
I also liked the ice experiment. I did do it in the winter when we had the snow and how it melted in different outside, in the sun and the shade. I never would have thought to do it on a sunny day to see how in the sun and shade and see the effect on the ice.
this is a great activity, 6th class did it this year and junior infants class came over with an object to see if the bridges would be strong enough. It was a great peer teaching oppertunity.
I enjoyed both Activities. I believe both will keep the children really engaged.
I would do the activity : Aliens
We are lucky to have a projector in our sensory room, i would get the children in and lay them on the floor and project the planets up on the ceiling. We would talk about the planets. the difference in each of them. I would bring up earth last and explain that we have people living on this planet.
We would than discuss that even though it has never been proven but can we imagine if there was aliens what would they look like. i would get them to draw an alien they imagine, with recycled materials they could make a 3d model alien. this would lead onto what would you show them if they came to planet earth what would you show them i would either do the act out what you would show them or they can role play it and i would dress up as my alien and they can be on planet earth. they may even dress up as what they wanted to show me
This activity would keep the children engaged. May even try it myself. Love the idea of matching the aliens with the planet.
This was a really enjoyable module. I started with an open mind and by doing this each activity sets would hold the interest of any of the children I teach.
I would do the Sun Activity Set:
I would start with the Sun and the world and how it moves around. I think the visual of sticking animals onto the globe will allow the younger children to understand how the world works with the sun. Than getting the children to get them deciding what activities you do day or night.
the next lesson i would that go over what is good/bad about the sun. That we need to protect ourselves. I liked the uv beads.
than I would introduce the shadow in the next lesson. I would read the shadow book. I would get the children to build the forest and let them explore the shadow with the torch.
Finally I would get the children to go out on a sunny day and let them take chalk drawings of their shadows in different area and directions. I would take pictures of them and discuss them afterwards with everything.
This is such a great idea for the children to do their own learning but also have some parent time just looking at the moon and drawing it together. I remember when my sister had to do this in school, due to fact some of her school mates lived in the countryside the moon was different some days. it would be a great discussion
After doing this part of the course I really attached myself to the lesson ‘What will we use to clean it up’
I work in an autism class and this will bring a life skill that they could learn into a science experiment.
I was interested in the face how simple it could be to do a science experiment and get the childrens minds investigating straight away. Having a discussion about materials and which ones will work. Let the children try them out and coming up with a conclusion. I loved the fact that once the experiment is completed that the children discuss about why they didnt work and continued to make rain jackets for their tedding bears. The younger child would love this. My children would learn what to use to clean up.
Louise,
what a cool idea. I love how you engaged them about the astronauts have asked for help. It makes it more realistic and takes it away from book work. Will be adding this one to my notes.