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Great– and please register any event you have at your school on spaceweek.ie — you can even register now and add the details a bit later.
oh – alien passports? would it have their photo? their date of birth? where they were born… how lovely and a great record of the alien.
Paddy – we might check with Jane Shimuzu – I know she does rockets every year at a junior school, where the oldest class are 2nd! I agree that younger children will need some extra supervision, but the pop-fizz rocket is grand to set off, as long as everyone backs up a few paces at launch. Perhaps have a launch area that is clearly marked, with only once group launching as the rest of the class waits for their turn?
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?
Glad the resources are useful – and I appreciate that they can’t all be done! I like that you have identified different times of year when you can bring some of this spacey-science into your classroom.
is this the book? here is review from the Guardian
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_