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The mobile library you mention sounds wonderful, what a great amenity to have so regularly at your school.
I really like your think-pair-share activity – from my experience children do often know quite a lot about space so it could be very interesting to hear what they know.
Hi Adrienne, it’s really nice to hear about your schools ongoing SSE. What way did you conduct your audit/assess the children’s science skills?
Laura – Giving the children room to experiment with designs is very important. Be careful with introducing too many different concepts at once however – rockets don’t usually roll or experience surface friction so discussing these together may be slightly confusing.
I like your idea to use LED tealights Cathal – they are usually quite cost effective, and safe. Would they be creating their own constellations too, copying constellations, or just making the holes for the stars at random?
Andrea I really like how you mention discussing what a house should provide (warmth, shelter). It is important that the children aren’t comparing their houses in a negative way – a small house can provide everything a bigger house can!
It’s so important to work on fine motor skills from a young age, so I really like the model making in the ‘Where do you live lesson?’ for younger children. It would be nice to see them discuss what else might be needed in their village (shops, school etc) and have them reason through what they think is necessary for a community.
Lovely lesson Aideen – I would just make sure that the rockets the children make aren’t too heavy. The little paper rocket mice are nice and light which is why the plastic bottles work so well with them.
Adrienne – Its really nice to see you recognising your own classes needs, and incorporating colour can really help with children who are more visual learners!
Play dough is such a good tool for this activity – did you find that they could correctly predict what would happen?
Aliens are a great topic for doing cross-curricular activity, as you describe clearly in your lesson plan Aideen! Asking the children why their aliens look a certain way, or eat certain foods, and linking this to where they live, what type of planet it is (hot, icy, etc..) would be a nice extension.
I really like this lesson Sean – very well rounded and interactive. It would be nice to repeat the outdoor shadow activity in the summer and winter to reinforce their learning and treat it as a simple science observation project.
This is an excellent use of the inquiry framework Emer – I think this would be wonderful for an infant class.
Hi Aveen – For an inquiry based lesson our prompt/starter question should relate to the investigation the children will perform. If you could tie your questioning in with your exploring, I think this would be a lovely lesson and very engaging for children.
