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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.
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_
