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Junior Infants Inquiry based lesson base on Dr. Zeus’s book There’s No Place Like Space!
Learning objectives: Children will identify the Sun, Earth and Moon, recognise that Earth is our home, and discuss simple facts about space.
Resources: There’s No Place Like Space! pictures of the Solar System, globe, torch, ball, paper and colouring materials.
Show a picture of Earth from space. Ask: What is space? What can we see in the sky? How do astronauts travel?
Read the story, pausing to discuss the planets, the Sun and the Moon. Use a torch as the Sun and a ball as the Earth to demonstrate that the Sun gives us light and that Earth is where we live. Encourage children to ask questions and share observations.
Children draw their favourite planet or design a rocket and share one fact they learned from the story.
Review key vocabulary (Sun, Moon, Earth, planet, rocket, astronaut). Ask children to name one thing they discovered about space.
Assessment: Observe participation, questioning, ability to identify the Sun, Earth and Moon, and children’s drawings and oral responses.<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>Inquiry based lesson using the Dr. Zeus’s book- </span><span class=”s2″>There’s No Place Like Space!</span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>Learning Objective: </span><span class=”s3″>Children will identify the Sun, Earth and Moon, recognise that Earth is our home, and discuss simple facts about space.</span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>Resources:</span><span class=”s4″>There’s No Place Like Space!</span><span class=”s3″>, pictures of the Solar System, globe, torch, ball, paper and colouring materials.</span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>Introduction I would s</span><span class=”s3″>how the children a picture of Earth from space on the IWB. </span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s3″>Questions: </span><span class=”s4″>What is space? What can we see in the sky? How do astronauts travel?</span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s3″> Read the story, pausing to discuss the planets, the Sun and the Moon. Use a torch as the Sun and a ball as the Earth to demonstrate that the Sun gives us light and that Earth is where we live. Encourage children to ask questions and share observations.</span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s3″> Children draw their favourite planet or design a rocket and share one fact they learned from the story.</span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>To conclude we would </span><span class=”s3″> review key vocabulary (Sun, Moon, Earth, planet, rocket, astronaut). Ask children to name one thing they discovered about space.</span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>Assessment:</span><span class=”s3″> Observe participation, questioning, ability to identify the Sun, Earth and Moon, and children’s drawings and oral responses.</span></p>I would teach a lesson based on Esero 11- Weather- what clothes to wear?
Materials:
Teddy, washing line, clothes, IWB, weather images.
Learning outcome: Children will identify different types of weather and what clothes to wear.
We will look at the weather chart and discussion different types of weather. We will look outside the windows and the children will answer questions.
What is the weather today?
How do we know?
Children will discuss and describe what they see.
Teacher will have a washing line up in the classroom with different types of clothes hanging from it. (Scarf, hat, sunglasses, sun hat, wooly socks etc).
Discussion on how these clothes keep us warm or cool.
Children can take turns miming different types of weather, hot, windy etc and other children identify which clothes they need to wear. They will give simple reasons for their choices.
Teacher will show weather images and dress the teddy appropriatley.
Children will give thumbs up/down if teacher is correct to assess their understanding.
Conclude with a sheet where the children can cut out clothes and dress their own teddy.
Hi Lucy, I enjoyed reading your reflection. I also think there is so much opportunity to include children’s voices and to look at creative ways to include the voice of children in the younger classes.
I would do a lesson on the activity set Stars, for Junior Infants.
I would introduce the topic with the song ‘Catch a falling star’ to get them interested.
I would ask question to illicit what they know about stars?
What do you think a falling star is?
Have you ever seen stars in the sky?
What do they look like?
Explain that the sun is a star.
Stars give off light.
That stars are Giant balls of gas.
Show them visuals of stars in the night sky on the IWB, and that they seem small because they are far away.
Show them the picture of Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Starry night’
See if they can count the stars, and explain that there are millions of stars and we can’t see them all.
Discuss how stars twinkle in the sky and get them to move around wiggling their fingers to ‘twinkle’.
The whole class will come together to complete a collage of Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry night scene.
Conclude the lesson by singing ‘Catch a falling star’
I love this book, children always get such a laugh out of it. It has so much scope for creativity in it and to teach the topic of Space and aliens.
Activity set: The planets
Junior infants
Learning objective: The children will learn about the planets in the solar system and begin to recognise their names.
Materials
IWB to play planet song
Pictures of each of the planets laminanted.
Art materials
Inquiry/Introduction
Begin the lesson with an image of the solar system and ask the children what they think the planets are etc? Ask them what they notice and that Earth is the planet we live on. Play the Planet song to get them interested and moving around.
Activity
Introduce the planets one by one and name them with the images. Count the planets together and name each planet.
Children name each planet and teacher selects pupils to come up and hold an image of a planet. The children are placed in order of the planets and they say the name.
Activity
The children can use the various art materials to create a simple solar system.
Conclusion
Play song again and review learning. Children say the planet names. Ask questions about their favourite planet.
Inquiry based activity with Junior Infants.
Dancing raisins.
Materials: Plastic cups, raisins and sparkling water.
I would draw or make an image of dancing raisins to prompt discussion.
Questions-What do you think will happen if I put these raisins in to the water? Do you think they will move?
Invite predictions for, the children- will they flat, sink or move?
Investigation
Ask the children to place the raisins in the glass of sparkling water and observe closely.
Talk to them about what they see and ask them to describe it. They should see the bubbles attach to the raisins causing them to rise and fall repeatedly.
Challenge
Compare still and sparkling water, what is the difference?
They could also test different small objects to see if they dance too.
Reflection
Discuss what surprised thgem, why do they think the raisins move?
Explainn or illicit from the children that the bubbles lifter the raisins to the surface and when the bubbles pompes the raisins sank again.
Hi Doireann, this is an interesting fact. I love looking at the moon especially when it is full!
I forgot to add that I’m in SET but often do team teaching with Junior/Senior and First class.