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I love the idea of drawing your own constellation and seeing what other shapes you can see in the constellations. I would love to extend this by allowing the children to use either play doh or mini marshmallows and matchsticks to make a 3D model of their constellations. This would link in really nicely with 3d shapes, and construction. We could then do a gallery walk in the classroom where children can look at other pupils work and say what shapes they see in their constellations. You could go one step further and have some senior classes make the planets from papier mache and make a big display incorporating the 3d planets and the junior classes constellations, fact files on the planets and add in the special life draw an alien lesson as well! I think this would make a lovely whole school project and touch on a lot of additional curricular areas.
Hi Leanne, I actually used to use these songs while teaching the planets to my 1st and 2nd class as well, they are a fantastic resource and a great way to incorporate music into the lesson as well!
The activity I would use is the Lunar Landscape as there are so many options for integration with oral language, maths and art. I would use the four and cocoa powder to symbolise the moon’s surface, then allow the children to throw the rocks into the tray to symbolise the craters on the moon. We can talk about why the craters are different shapes and sizes, talk about the textures of the rocks in comparison to the flour and cocoa powder etc. This links nicely in with the Astroedu activity of using fabric and fibre to create our own moon and ask questions about what the moon would feel like if we could touch it. Finally, we could link it in with materials in the science curriculum, the properties and characteristics of materials.
I love this trigger, it makes the investigation appropriate to the child’s world as I am sure many of them have a rubber duck for their bath times!
Hi my name is Marcella and I’ll be teaching multigrade next year.
The experiment I would chose to do with my class would be about floating and sinking, this is always a hit with the younger children. I would bring out the objects to be tested and have them in a bag so the children have to use language to describe the materials. Then we would predict how each object would react in the water tray – would it float or sink? Children can draw a smiley face on their whiteboards if they think they will float and a sad face on it if they they think it will sink. We can then test each material and see if it floated or sank. We could then talk about where they see objects floating or sinking at home, what materials were these things made from? As my reflection I would assess whether the children can use the appropriate language of flaoting and sinking, can then name materials such as plastic, wood, rubber etc.
