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Ailis, I like how you have given a specific context, and used a waterproof material to make the house. An extension activity might be to explore ways in which to make something waterproof. Children could explore a combo roof – a strong material, covered with a light weight waterproof material – and discuss how housing uses waterproof on the outside, and strong on the inside.
Ciara: please register these events for your class at spaceweek.ie and plan to carry them out between 4 and 10 October. Any that you don’t get around to finishing can be used for Science Week in November 😉
What a lovely set about stars Lisa — you could include some of the latest images from the Webb telescope as well.
Sharlene – would you extend the ideas into “what does an alien need to live?” and make comparisons to what plants and animals of earth need?
this would tie into science: – Plants and Animals> — appreciate that living things have essential needs for growth
Sharlene – for more Polar resources, please check out the PolarStar project activities, some of which are available in Irish.
Sharlene – can you share the link to the video? -there are lots out there called “Fun with Magnets”
I’m thinking about where I find magnets at home — mostly on the fridge, on the sliding door at my Dad’s front screen door (in Canada – not an Irish thing!), on my son’s wooden train sets to link the carriages together, inside the radio (to make the speaker move) … what would you expect the children to come up with?
Ciara – which particular materials would you use? For a while there, the sticky bubble foam was popular – but a quick search for it failed to turn up any links for it.
Sarah, with a 1st class, would they have experience in tracking the weather over a few months? If so, then this would be lovely to connect weather, changing seasons. Or it could be done as soon as you start in September – and you might ask them what they wore in the summer holidays, and would they be wearing shorts/t-shirts all year?
Ciara – can you ask the children to investigate other liquids to see if they make sunsets? Or they might wonder – does it work the same with different amounts of milk? or if the torch is dimmer or brighter? All of these wonderings can come out of the initial demonstration and will allow the children to explore and deepen their understanding.
And could you do this during SpaceWeek?
Ciara – I recently came across this resource from RNLI about sun safety at the beach. Might be nice to do at the end of the school year, just before the summer holidays.
Ciara – do you have a link to the poem? I did a google and came up with a twinkle.ca reference – is that it? Free art sounds great – please send me some of the pictures of what they come up with for me to add to next year’s version of this course.
Shirley – I agree with you on how clever that idea is — my own sons were never keen on drawing – and this simple line drawing task was more of what they could manage.
4 steps could be divided into: 1: head, 2: body and arms, 3: legs and hands, 4: feet, if the paper is folded horizontally.
This technique apparently has a name – Exquisite Corpse – which I only found out today!
Nice stuff John – I wonder who are the current aliens that the children might know. My list of aliens includes lots of Dr Who creations, the Star Wars cantina aliens, and of course ET (which came out the summer I was 16!!!).
I include the toy aliens from Toy Story, even though that movie came out in 1995!! https://youtu.be/zT8If2VABWQ
