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Hello Donal,
Welcome to the module, Great way to introduce day and night with the video call with your brother.
A nice tool you could also use is :https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html
Which shows where on the planet is light and dark at different times!
Hi Brian,
Welcome to the module and for sharing your fact. At present we estimate there are roughly 10^ 22 to 10^ 24 stars in the observable universe. Which means there might be around 10,000 stars to every grain of sand on Earth! Another way to put it all into perspective.
Hi Frances,
Great fact about butterfly galaxies, thanks for sharing that. The Perseid meteor shower is coming up on August 12th as Lousie Murray mentioned. The same day as our partial (94% coverage) solar eclipse. So it will be a great day (and night) to be paying attention to the sky!
Hi Geraldine,
Thanks for joining us, we hope you find this module interesting. Great space fact about the time it takes for light from the sun to travel. The voyager 1 space probe is approaching the location where it takes 24 hours for light to travel. On Nov 18 this year it will be ‘one light day’ from earth : https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/where-are-voyager-1-and-voyager-2-now/.
Hi Chloe,
Welcome to the forum.
Great fact and furthermore, the sun is so big you could fit almost 1000 Jupiter’s inside it.Hello Conor,
Fab activity outline here, love assigning the seasons to the four corners of the room and getting the kids to present on their seasons. For the follow-up you mentioned on how different parts of the world experience seasons differently, there’s a simple explainer on Southern Hemisphere seasons being the reverse to ours, useful background for when you revisit that idea: https://kids.kiddle.co/SeasonHello Sarah,
Thank you for sharing your activities. There are alot of excellent resources for learning about the planets online. I would also recommend having a look at the gallery of images taken by NASA: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/webb/multimedia/images/#search
You can sort by planet, or anything else your class is interested in.Hi Maria,
Thanks for sharing your lesson plan. You could extend this by describing different environments around the world, very hot, very cold, high up in the mountains, or somewhere very wet, and asking the children how they think people might build their homes to suit each place. You could also look at houses built on rivers or stilts, and discuss what challenges that kind of location might bring.
I really like the idea of showing them where you grew up too, which gives a nice personal touch to the lesson.Hi Adam,
Great lesson, thanks for sharing. Since children often assume big equals heavy it could be good to introduce a surprising pair. Like small heavy stones versus a large but hollow yoghurt pot which floats.
Hello Clodagh,
Wonderful activites here. The planets are a great subject to discuss as there is just so much going on. Another interesting discussion is how proximity to the sun effect temperature of those planets and how we on Earth, are in the perfect place to support life. Nicknamed the Goldilocks zone:https://www.esa.int/kids/en/learn/Our_Universe/Planets_and_moons/Can_there_be_another_Earth
Hi Brid-Sile,
Thanks for sharing your lesson. The bag of clothes and relating to the seasons is a really good activity. It could be nice to ask the children to guess which season the items of clothing belongs to and explain their reasoning too.Hi Ruth,
Thanks for sharing how you would teach the sun and shadows. You could build a few ways on your next step section by asking the children to notice whether their shadow looks the same at home in the evening as it did in the schoolyard earlier that day. Or if their shadow is different in the morning to the evening in their garden.
Hello Lorraine,
You are right that we don’t need complicated equipment to learn STEM concepts. The ongoing weather chart is a great extension to your weather lesson. Builds the habit of looking at the weather and responding by thinking about appropriate clothes to wear.
Hi Kevin,
Stellarium is a great tool indeed! Now is also a good time to use it to find out where the sun will be near you to plan somewhere to view the eclipse on August 12th.
Hi Adam,
Thanks for sharing your lesson, sounds like great fun. I love the introduction game of shadow tag to start energetically and the questions used to follow it up. You could add having the children mark and trace their shadows in chalk outside, asking them to predict how they think their shadows might change based on what they discovered in the torch activities. Then trace again at a few points throughout the day and compare as you go, so they can test their predictions against what actually happens.