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This sounds like a lovely activity and I love that you included you a picture of your classroom display, thanks!
I would base this lesson towards infants and begin the lesson with the planet song, picking a song that does not have too many lyrics and focuses mainly on the planet names. Music typically ignites most areas of child development. The children would gather in a circle and I would play the song a couple of times before reading the lyrics aloud bit by bit. In order to catch the children’s attention, I would have planet posters displayed on the wall to help them to focus. The children could point to the correct poster while listening out for a particular planet in the song lyrics. To integrate art with the lesson, the children would each be given a clear, round plastic ornament to paint. They would paint the inside of the balls to match the colours of each of the planets. I would then tie string to the loop and hang them on a tree.
Hi Laura, this sounds like a great idea! I’m sure the children really enjoyed making a sundial. I must give it a try.
I had forgotten about this lesson and it’s always a crowd pleaser! Will be trying this out again in September.
Hello, my name is Lauren. I will be working in the MGLD class in September, with ages varying from 5 to 8. My favourite space fact is that some planets have no surface to land on. An inquiry based activity that I often do is the ‘Dancing Raisons’ experiment. For the equipment, you will need two clear glasses, one glass filled with still water and the other glass filled with sparkling. I then ask the children what they think will happen in each glass before adding the raisons; will they sink of float. When the raisons are added to the glass with fizzy water, they appear to dance as they float up and down. We then have a whole class discussion on why the raisons ‘danced’ in the glass with fizzy water and discuss that the increase in buoyancy helps the raisons to become less dense than the fizzy water.
