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is this it? https://youtu.be/ylE_IPo7KWU
Mallorie – that is a lovely set of themed activities across the curriculum. Is there a science focus that you can include?
Nice outline Meadhbh, it should work well if the classroom can be made very dark!
An alternative is to use the Shoe Box viewer from Exploring the Sun by Dr Maeve Liston in the resources folder (the activity is on page 11, in the section on misconceptions).
Nice outline Michelle – an activity that can support this shows up in module 4: “Hot and cold” https://esero.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/12_Hot-and-cold.pdf
Welcome Michelle – there are plenty of other senior infants teachers here, so have a good look around the forums for a slew of great ideas.
Hi Sharon – welcome to this course, do you know what class you will be teaching next year?
Your forces lesson has a nice space theme to it – how much time would you give to this activity? Encourage the children to apply their understanding – as in… “I know magnets can push away other magnets, so if it pushes away a known magnet, it must be a magnet.”
Nice inquiry lesson there Karina, and I agree with you about the learning happening in the discussions.
thanks for sharing the mind map – remember to keep adding to it as you go through each module. You might want to snap shot it now as a record of your initial categories and organisation.
Welcome Aine – humans in space and our exploration of our solar system is interesting to lots of us too!
Carina – all of these resources are designed to be adapted to your own use – and you know your particular children and their needs.
Are there additional activities that children do in the day you would include for your class? Travel to school, different meals etc…
Bernadette – it would be interesting to see if the object’s shadows when illuminated at trickier angles can be identified by the children. So much of that is tied into spatial reasoning and awareness.
Triona – I wonder if the children we teach are out this week looking for their shadows? Drawing around each others shadows is a lot of fun – but you have to work quickly – even 5 minutes shows a noticeable shift in the shadow.
Sinéad – great outline of an activity that includes students with additional needs – remember that these adaptations can be recorded in the column at the side of the DPSM ESERO Framework for Inquiry.
