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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
Paula – the rocket mice are quite lightweight, so on a windy day there could be great discussion about firing the rockets in the same direction as the wind to get them to go further!
Paula, is this the song? https://youtu.be/8ZjpI6fgYSY?
I have also worked with young children who don’t like to share — and planning activities that children need to work together to accomplish is so important to help them develop the social skills around sharing and listening.
Paula – so much scope for integration, including early mathematical activities, as the children sort the planets by size, by colour…
Nora – You have realistically planned for how long this will take – and I like how you have added a final – “which is the best rocket?“
cute story – https://youtu.be/ko306WcHRns, but oh, my, the science in it!!
Gravity boots are not a thing. They don’t “grip the ground and stop you floating off.” There is gravity in space, micro-gravity is what you experience when your space craft is moving at the same speed as you — much like you jumping up in a lift just as it starts to go down — you fall down with the lift and it feels as if you are weightless – but gravity is still pulling you down.
Shirley – film canisters are so hard to find, I have used fizzy vitamin tablet containers, and recently saw a video suggested by one of the teachers – to use a plastic water bottle, with a cork, and to get the cork to fit, wrap it in electrical tape to make a snug fit.
There is also the option of using the drink bottles with the pushable-spout-thing (not sure what it is called) as in this video: https://youtu.be/z4645B03AC4
Edit: ok – they call it a sports cap: https://www.rigb.org/learning/activities-and-resources/fizzy-bottle-rockets
Shirley – the role play sounds good fun, and would be great for imagination based in a bit of science thinking. I’ve had children design aliens, then work together to figure out how all those aliens might live together on a planet. Do all the aliens live on the ground? can some fly? can some swim? etc. There is usually a child whose alien might not have come out quite like they intended, so we make that a chameleon alien — it looks one way to fool the others, but it can change to look like something completely different.
Shirley – I have a weakness for asking children to draw where they see the Sun rising and setting from their own homes … I did it as a student in middle school in Canada (aged about 10), and still remember how cool it seemed to me that the Sun rose in a slightly different place each day, and by the end of the week, at a clearly different part of the horizon! This was in the 1970s and I still have a photo I took of the Sun setting behind my house.
Leanne – so much scope for science there. Different children might design coats for different seasons — a winter coat needs to keep you warm, a summer coat needs to keep you out of the sun…
Paula – I love the link to water safety! I did an activity with an informal group, play acting a scene at the beach, and asking the children to choose an object that they could use to help someone who was in difficulty in the water. I had a range of things that you would normally take to the beach – and they had to choose one, show how they would use it safely and then explain why it was a good choice.
The RNLI have superb resources at : https://rnli.org/youth-education/education-resources/lower-primary
