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I would use the activity set provided for the moon, with the intention of it being an introductory lesson as I have learned that the moon is a great place to start teaching about space. I would start by using a riddle – asking the senior infants to tell me what appears in the sky at night and glows, has craters etc. until someone tells me the answer. Then we would complete the ESERO 2 Lesson. Senior Infants can be jam packed in terms of fitting everything in so since this is our play theme, i might complete this at a station during structured play.
Hi everyone,
My name is Katie and I teach Senior Infants. My favourite space fact is that the Voyager 1 contains a golden record with pictures of Earth in case it bumps into some aliens.
An inquiry based activity I did with senior infants last year was learning about exoplanets. After learning about what they were I told them that they were going to become space explorers trying to discover new planets. I divided the class into pairs and gave each class a picture I had made on canva. The picture had a mixture of tiny stars and small circles speckled all around it. The children used flashlights to try and find the tiny circles that were new planets. When they found a planet they circled it. Afterwards the children took turns coming up to the interactive whiteboard where I had the picture on display and marked planets they had found. We ended the activity by each child coming up with a name for one of the planets they found.
