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Aisling – can you check the sharing settings on Miro, you mind map is not visible.
I like how you have considered how the children will record their findings — another way is suggested in the ESERO activity Does Saturn Float?
Laura, I agree that prompting the children to consider which features their aliens will need to live in certain types of places brings in science thinking. They might need examples of living creatures on Earth – and then this could provoke them to think of adaptations to environments.
for sure – and Adam is such a nice kid. I know his Dad and have met Adam a few times. The family are space mad!!
Aisling – selecting the toy can give rise to so many questions… is it easier to trace the shadow of a “sharp-edge” toy, or a fuzzy soft toy? what do you think? why?….
Enya – this history of time telling is really interesting – did you know “After 1916 in Ireland, depending on where you were, clocks could show four different times: Dunsink, Greenwich, and the summer variations on either, with a maximum difference of an hour and 25 minutes.” (source, this article from Irish Times 2013)
thanks for sharing the mind map Enya – could you share some of the particular videos of astronauts that your class has enjoyed?
The heat insulation activity might fit in with Animals in the Cold, an activity that appears in module 4.
for Meadhbh and Hannah – do you actually measure the speed of the rockets? or do you measure how far they go, and presume that a faster rocket will go further?
Meadhbh – do you have any tips for the rocket balloon on a string? I have tried it plenty of times and have never really got it going well. I think my string has been too rough, and friction might have slowed it down.
Hannah – there is a lot of discussion right now about the next astronauts to go to the Moon. The mission is known as Artemis and launch dates for the first mission to test the systems have just been announced for the end of August / early September for an un-crewed mission to the Moon!!!
https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1
Meadhbh – I like the range of questions you have planned to ask the children. I think it would be interesting if any of them mention greenhouses / windows as ways to “keep the heat” in.
I also wonder if they think the Sun has the same heating effect on a cold day? Could you do this outside in winter on a sunny day too?
Hannah. I’m glad you found the glance cards useful – I like to have them next to me when I am planning. Stellarium is a powerful tool and I’d love to hear how your colleagues might use it in the school year.
this seems like great fun, with so much opportunity for language and descriptions linked to their thinking about the possibilities of life elsewhere. I have also asked children if they think we would recognise life on another planet — since there are such extremes of different types of life here, would we even know if we met an alien? I have shown pictures of a dried bean, a candle, a robot, a baby, a plant and a plastic spider to children and asked them — is it alive?
What a cool fact Deirdre — I didn’t know that, so looked it up to find: https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Astronomers+Say%3A+Centre+Of+The+Milky+Way+Galaxy+Is+Raspberry+Flavoured-a0393137964
Apparently the new limited edition Coca Cola flavour is also “space-flavoured”
Marie, I like how you have incorporated the inquiry framework with a lovely trigger, plenty of opportunity for the children to wonder and explore, and a key activity that they can investigate to deepen their understanding of colour. The technology usage at the end is a nice touch.
Thanks for sharing your mind map, don’t forget to keep adding to it over this course.
I really like how you have incorporated a range of questions that will provoke thinking about their aliens and how they might live/move etc.
You could even ask the children to group aliens into ones that might live on the same planet!
Hannah – would you use https://www.sfi.ie/site-files/primary-science/media/pdfs/col/design_a_bridge.pdf ?
I have used it with 8-10 year-olds and they had a hard time applying learning from a warm up activity on triangles to their bridge design. Will your activity be more about the strength of materials, or more about the structural assembly of the bridge?
The primaryscience activity suggests restricting the material to paper, so that structure is the key focus. If you use different materials, then you might want to use a common design to allow for comparison.