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Hi Maria, I smiled when I saw this as my lesson involved poor Teddy being outside in the inclement weather too. But children do relate so well to that kind of thing. I really like that you introduced the lesson with people in cold climates for the geography strand of people in other places. I think I will borrow that idea.
Hi I’m Fiona and I will be teaching junior infants this year. I love how starlight travels from the past so to speak. It is so cool to think that , since dubhe in the plough is 123 lightyears away, the light I am seeing is from long long before I was born.
My inquiry based lesson is on properties of materials, but waterproof, not absorption. Trigger would be to leave Teddy out in the rain, observe what happens and enquire what we could do differently next time. We would move on to designing coat and hat or umbrella and brainstorming what materials to use. We would test out these materials by dropping water on to them from pipettes ( I think the children love to use “sciency” equipment). Each child would have a plate with their own scraps of the materials eg kitchen towel, plastic bag, newspaper, j cloth, tin foil. finally they could have a template of raincoat or umbrella and, folowing discussion, stick on the materials they think are best.