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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?
Glad the resources are useful – and I appreciate that they can’t all be done! I like that you have identified different times of year when you can bring some of this spacey-science into your classroom.
is this the book? here is review from the Guardian
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.
Hi Grainne,
which style of rocket would you use with your children? A rubber band one, a straw one? Or would you encourage the children to widely design and make? It might be very hard for them to explain which one is going to work better if they are very, very different in propulsion method.
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.
I like the challenge aspect of children trying to work out the season from the clothing. That could also lead to a discussion of what you might take with you on a holiday / so linking weather to different parts of the world.
Thanks for the list of books – I’d like to add them to a 2022 version summary of resources for Junior Classes.
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.