[Jane Dooley]

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.

[Jane Dooley]

Laura- This is a lovely activity!

[Jane Dooley]

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.

[Jane Dooley]

Sharon – That’s a lovely lesson. Can you provide a link to the solar system song?

[Jane Dooley]

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.

[Jane Dooley]

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.

[Jane Dooley]

Laura – I like this experiment. You could try it with something denser than raisins and compare what happens and discuss why

[Jane Dooley]

Colette, can you give an example of what video resources you would use?  You could also explore multiple different ways of making things move, for example blowing/throwing/magnets to compare and discuss.

 

 

 

 

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