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This is a great lesson Deirdre. I especially like your idea for the clothesline and labelling the items of clothing in Irish. I also like how you connect the seasons with occasions that stand out to children like their birthdays. Good work!
Lovely lesson Lisa. You could use stellarium, mentioned in module 4, to have a look at the night sky in your specific area and pick out some constellations together to try and find.
This is a really nice lesson Lisa – you could show the children videos of astronauts on the ISS during your follow up as well to really reinforce that there is no up or down as they float around the ISS.
I love your method for making up an alien name, that sounds like lots of fun. Maybe you could incorporate a little more science into the drawing section by discussing how the environment of the planet the alien is from might affect how the alien looks. A could planet might mean the alien has fur for example. Great lesson Lianna!
Kirstin this lesson sounds really lovely for junior classes – incorporating roleplay and imagination with the puppets is great.
Great lesson Kelly. Rocket mice are so fun and rockets in general are a great stimulus for learning. I like how you link this to the ketchup bottle, that’s a great way of showing them that science is all around us.
Nice lesson Kay, I especially like the simple bowl of water and glove activity. You nicely show how simple an investigation like this can be!
Van Gogh’s Starry Night is so lovely for an integrated art and science lesson. Interestingly, it’s believed that Van Gogh based this painting off of drawings by the 3rd Earl of Rosse. Lord Rosse, of Birr Castle in County Offaly, built the Leviathan telescope which was once the biggest telescope in the world.
Investigating melting ice is great for junior classes because it is so simple and allows the children to easily take charge of their learning and links nicely to lots of topics like weather, the Sun etc. Nice work!
This sounds like a really fun space week for junior infants Karen. You might find that they struggle with the fine motor skills required to make the straw rockets, so you could try rocket mouse if you think it would be too much for them. Rocket mouse is very simple!
Interesting lesson Fiona. The vaseline part sounds a little messy but extremely fun, I’m sure the children you teach would really enjoy this.