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Karen – there are some great pictures and posters of the planets, I like the simple ones from ESA: https://www.esa.int/kids/en/Multimedia/Downloads/Paxi_Posters.
There is a great opportunity to explore colours, why things are different colours etc – which the children might suggest or wonder.
Hi Emma – could you check settings and enable sharing of your mind map?
If someone gave you a link to this diagram they might also need to give you permission to view it.
Teresa – I have used LED lamps that I got from Halfords — and tried using desk lamps that could be plugged in, but small flashlight styles really are better – and sunlight is the best!
Great set of activities Deirdre, linked to a theme. I like how the trigger of astronauts can lead to “how did they get there?” –> rockets.
Karen Nyberg is great – is this the video you show? https://youtu.be/uIjNfZbUYu8
Have you also seen the crews competing in Space Olympics?
Una, you have a really nice grouping of activities for learning about the planets. It can be interesting to ask children to select pairs of planets from a range of different sizes balls – which planets have they chosen? There is a version of this for the Earth and Moon – that gets quite complicated, but for young children they can just compare larger to smaller, and have Jupiter or Saturn as the larger ball, and one of the terrestrial planets as the smaller one.
Deirdre – I see your emphasis is on language usage and I wonder could you ask the children why they think certain clothing would be better a certain times of year– linking seasons and temperature.
Great set of activities Vanessa. I have often noted that children are fascinated with Laika the dog -but I wonder if they know the full story of her flight to space – it’s sad.
That video for the bottle rocket is lovely – simple materials, a wrapped cork to act as a bung – and off it goes!
Dervilla – what a great set of ways to extend and connect the learning about forces.
Is this the song? – https://youtu.be/DEHBrmZxAf8, I was fine with the ear-wormy-ness of it – but they went past Jupiter on the way to the Moon!!! (ok – we won’t mention that it was cats in space…) 🙂
Mary, that’s another super list that I’d like to share more widely. Are you ok if I publish it in this summer’s summer course summary?
What a lovely set of activities – so much wondering and exploring for the children to do!
I once put a whole set of spatter paintings together to make a giant mural of a galaxy – the children decided which spatters paintings had “lots of stars” so were in the middle of the galaxy and which were “not so many stars” and so were the outer edge of the galaxy. Then along comes the latest Webb Telescope image of the Cartwheel Galaxy – a very different type and shape of galaxy!! https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_captures_stellar_gymnastics_in_the_Cartwheel_Galaxy
Dervilla – I agree with you on space scoop – I think it is best for taking very technical language about astronomy and space and simplifying it for a general adult audience, not specifically a child reader. APOD is my go to – simply wonderful images and links that allow you to find out more.
Celine, the UNICEF book looks really interesting: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/19616.A_Life_Like_Mine
and the ESA education resource on shelters may help: https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/edu/PR37_Moon_shelter.pdf, although it does have a suggested age of 8+. It does have lovely images of different regions of the world, and the types of shelters they have.
Roisin – I’m not familiar with planetstoday.com – and trying that address bring you to a very general site – do you have the actual link?
There is the NASA eyes on the solar system: https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/orrery/#/home
and this ESA poster that shows missions that have explored each planet: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2019/02/ESA_s_fleet_of_Solar_System_explorers.
The children might ask their own questions about why the planets look the way they do – and is it related to what they are made of? where they are in the solar system etc. This can be inquiry, even without an investigation “practical” activity.
