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Hi Deirdre, the multi-cultural aspect of your lesson is a very nice touch. For the moon craters you can also use flour if you can’t acquire sand. A layer of cocoa powder on top makes lovely patterns when dropping the ‘meteors’ and you can simulate the streaks you actually see on the moon around craters. Stones also work very well as things to drop and are easy to find!
Hi Deirdre, this is a lovely lesson for infants. When designing the aliens and homes you should make sure to discuss what type of home would be suitable for them, for example does the alien live somewhere hot/cold, do they have fur, etc.
Hi Aoife, this is a lovely multi-disciplinary lesson. I like how you incorporate art. What story would you read aloud to the children?
Sarah this is a lovely simple lesson. It’s a great idea to get them to make something that floats after first physically investigating what works with various items. That really is a hands on way of learning
Kayleigh – The fingerprint activity is a lovely way to engage children. Science doesn’t have to be complicated or daunting you are right! Splitting your science lessons into smaller experiments/lessons is a great way to not get overwhelmed
Claire – For other ‘stations’ you could get a tray of flour/sand and get the kids to drop stones on to it to simulate how to moon formed craters.
Hi Clodagh, that’s a lovely hands on activity that will help them to visualise the scale of things. You could extend this by comparing Earth to the Sun for example, or to the planets or even try roughly sizing out the whole solar system to scale.
Mary – What video would you show the kids? ESA has a lovely kids series on their youtube about an alien named Paxi who travels the solar system.
Hi David, nice lesson. I really like the follow up discussion of constructing a boat, that is a lovely fun way of evaluating the children’s learning.