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Could you use videos of the Apollo Astronauts on the Moon? Here is a short one showing a jump: https://youtu.be/g5aPoRtF2vw
Meadhbh – Do they start by checking if the various materials float or sink? I ask this, since many boats are made of materials that would sink, except for how they are assembled to make the boat. It might be better to refer to this as a raft.
Sinéad, can you grant access to that board? I have been able to see other participant’s boards, but that link throws out “No access to board”.
Hi Sinéad, you might have seen earlier the link to the XKCD cartoon about grains of sand and stars: https://what-if.xkcd.com/83/, for teachers, but interesting.
Here is a link to an article from ESA that describes how we are trying to count the number of stars: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Herschel/How_many_stars_are_there_in_the_Universe
Nice mind map Vanessa — I wonder if ESA will make an appearance at the end as you add your ideas to it from this course 🙂
Welcome Meadhbh, I hope you find the material in the course and the reflections from other teachers in the forum to be useful and adaptable for your class. Do you have a favourite space fact?
Aoife, one way to make models of the Moon’s surface is to give the children a variety of different circular objects (I have used bits of string that they can wrap into circles of different sizes, bits of cardboard, cross-sections of paper towel rolls …) and have them glue them onto a bit of card.
We then covered the circles with a layer of foil that had to be squished and molded to the raised surface. This showed the 3-d nature of the Moon and was non-messy!
Does Saturn float is a lovely activity: https://esero.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/04_Does-Saturn-float.pdf , and the materials can be re-used in other inquiry activities.
Is this the book? https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1806689.Who_Sank_the_Boat_
Welcome Aoife, you’ll find other 1st class teachers here, so I hope you get a chance to look though the forum posts that share their experiences and practice.
Welcome Triona – there are plenty of other teachers of junior infants in this course, so I hope you will find the forums a rich source of ideas and accounts of practical experiences with this topic.
I agree with you that children should share what they know with their peers and to build on this with wonder and questions.
Hi Claire,
would you use the ESERO 10 resource, and if so, would you modify it? https://esero.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/10_What-do-you-do-in-a-day.pdf
I think it needs a few more activities, and I know I brush my teeth more than once a day.
Hi Rachel,
I like the way you have encouraged the children to reason and identify what they think will happen and then go on to test that. That is so much the core of scientific inquiry to learn science content.
What a super way to engage the children’s interest — this scenario is a great trigger. It leads to wondering and a clear investigation strand.
I remember my father in law repairing our dinghy some years ago – he removed the plastic milk-carton that had been used as a patch and used real boat building materials.
Hi Shona – I found this one: https://youtu.be/jZMsu9TFhjY are there other videos in particular that you recommend?
Hi everyone,
check out the beautiful first image from the Webb Telescope: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2022/07/Webb_s_first_deep_field
This is one of the deepest images ever made of distant galaxies, with only 12.5 hours exposure, it is an amazing indicator of what else Webb may be able to see. The Hubble telescope took a picture of the same bit of the sky, over weeks – and it is nowhere near as good.
I’m in astro-heaven at this image!!
