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Hi Lisa, welcome to the course!
That’s a lovely lesson. You could consider using tactile materials like playdough, foil, glitter etc to build their planets which is great for fine motor skills and inclusive learning.
Hi Aisling, lovely lesson incorporating art and science. I’m curious what simulator you would use to explore the life cycle of a star?
The star lantern is a very nice activity to do!
Hi Aine, shadow activities are really great. You can use this lesson as an opportunity to discuss day and night and why that happens. The torch can represent the sun, and shining the torch on a ball and viewing the ball from different perspectives in a dark room is a simple way of demonstrating phases of the Moon or day/night on Earth.
Nice work Margaret. Providing a wide range of materials is very important for allowing them to fully investigate for themselves what does and doesn’t work.
Hi Jane, thanks for sharing your mind map!
Wonderful lesson and use of the framework. You show your understanding very well.
Gillian this is very lovely lesson for infants, I like how you incorporate it into a PE lesson and your enquiry question about it following you indoors is very nice.
Hi Eve, I really like this lesson. It’s very simple and easy to demonstrate but so effective. The environment of being in a dark room and investigating this themselves is so engaging.
You can expand on this lesson, or have a continuation where you do effectively the same thing to demonstrate day and night on Earth.
This is a really great lesson Deirdre, well done. I love how simple it is to demonstrate and it really does get the children’s minds thinking.
Great fact Claire, it’s a very cool phenomenon. You can try and demonstrate this using balls of different sizes and viewing them at the right distance/perspective.
Shadow activities are so great! You can also extend your examination of the Sun throughout the day with investigating what direction your class window faces. When can you see the Sun?
I really like this lesson Amanda, a great discussion topic. I’m curious what way you would get the children to design their spacesuits, eg through drawing?
Hi Aine – I love this little science trick, very fun to amaze children with. I like how you say you can follow up by trying this with other materials. It’s so important to allow the children to investigate and ask questions!
Meadhbh – The shadow activity is very fun because it gets everyone outside and moving. A nice extension of this is to keep track of where the children’s shadows are at different points of the day (using chalk for example) to show how to Sun moving makes shadows move too.