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Michael – the ESERO activity 48 – How Far Can You Jump was written for 3rd/4th class children, and can be a nice stimulus for inquiry learning. The children could carry out their own inquiry about the different distances that the children in the class could jump – and perhaps simulate the effects of a larger gravity by holding something really heavy when they try to jump.
Aoife- this is a great design and make activity, ‘building’ on this Design a Bridge from primaryscience.ie. Here, the prediction part of carry out the investigation becomes Plan, and they can explain what they know about different materials and choose from them to make their bridge.
If you choose to make available only the materials around the classroom, then it might just be a paper bridge, and then the design of how the paper is folded/taped becomes more important.
Aoife – I tried shadow plays with a group of 8-10 year-olds and they found it more difficult than I had expected. I thought that using nursery rhymes, with the story given to them would help and images that they might use – but they got absolutely sidetracked by tiny details of the shadow puppets and it took forever!!
We had made up a shadow theatre, with a sheet over a large cardboard frame so that they could place the puppets between the light and sheet and we could view it from the front: https://youtu.be/nK4d9g9WQUU
Ailis, there is a lovely bank of images of the planets in this ESA resource- Our Solar System – Journey to other celestial objects | Teach with space PR01,
and a video with ESA’s mascot Paxi: https://youtu.be/mibxJwpennU
Children could be asked to describe what they see in terms of size, colour, shapes, as well as naming the planets.
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?