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Hi, my name is joey and I usually teach senior infants. I love teaching science to infants, but often find the suggested activities for the junior classes are a bit bland. Small children generally have great interest in all things science and are perfectly capable of engaging with more complex concepts. They are especially fascinated with space and are amazed to discover more about their universe. I am happy to say this course has provided plenty of interesting, practical ideas for teaching infants about space. Younger children need lots of hands on activities to be able to experience and visualise complex concepts. This course has given me lots to work with. Thank you.
Based on this module, I would choose a lesson set based on the moon. I loved that the moon is “multi-cultural”, I think this would be a really interesting and cross-curricular lesson.
introduction: begin with a story about the moon, perhaps one of the international ones listed. Do the children think this is a true story? Do they know any other stories about the moon?
What do we know about the moon? : make a class chart about all the things we know, or think we know about the moon.
Have we seen the moon in different shapes? Could some children draw these shapes, why do we think this is? What shape do we think the moon is?
I have made models of the planets, sun and moon before with a class and this is a good way of showing the moon’s position in space. After showing the children pictures of the moon landing, I would give the children art materials and we would layer up the surface of the moon with craters and mare.
To finish we would read more stories about the man in the moon
I have also done this challenge. It is great for a cooperation activity. We gave a prize to the bridge that could hold the most blocks! The children were asked to predict which one would be strongest and say why they thought that, the results were quite surprising for them!
