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