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Hello Lorraine,
Welcome to the forum, there are indeed more stars than grains of sand on earth. It is a quite an idea to get your head around!Hi Muireann,
Welcome to the forum, this is a fantastic lesson for inquiry based learning.
I also like that this is a long term investigation that requires a little bit of patience from the kids!Hello Muireann,
Thanks for sharing your ideas here. There are alot of skills that could be developed by keeping a moon diary! We only ever see one side of the moon as its tidally locked to the earth, it might interest them to the far side of the moon too : https://science.nasa.gov/moon/facts/, You can spin it to show themHello Natasha,
Thanks for sharing your lesson plan with us. Its a good idea to link it into other 3d shapes. You could ask the children why they think the earth and planets are spheres? Heres a nice resources from NASA explaining how gravity shapes the planets https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/planets-round/en/
Hi Niamh,
Thanks for sharing your activity, i love the discussion between the animals and the flip to show everyone is still stuck on to the planet! This is also a good model to teach about day and night in different parts of the planet. Heres a resource that tells you where is day and night on the planet at any time that you could show the children: <span class=”TextRun Underlined SCXW94884637 BCX0″ lang=”EN-US” xml:lang=”EN-US” data-contrast=”none”><span class=”NormalTextRun SCXW94884637 BCX0″ data-ccp-charstyle=”Hyperlink”>https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html</span></span><span class=”EOP SCXW94884637 BCX0″ data-ccp-props=”{}”> </span>
Hello Niamh,
Wonderful lesson plan, I particularly like your extension with the orbits. There is a very good resource for this idea here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dsVcBF-AE8
You can simplify the idea down though for your age group to the planets closer to the sun go fast and have smaller orbits around the sun, and the planets further away have larger orbits and slowly move around the sun.Hi Niamh,
Wonderful lesson. An excellent way to incorporate art further is to let the children do multiple outlines of many objects on an A3 paper throughout the day and then colour in those shapes, to make an abstract piece of art for their wall!Hi Juliette,
Welcome to the module, I hope you find lot of new ways to inspire your students! Do you have a favourite space fact to share?Hi Aisling,
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!
Hi Orla,
Nice job on the lesson plan, Great practical tip too about the shoebox for the crater activity, that’s exactly the kind of detail that saves someone else’s lesson !
One nice fact when discussing the Man in the Moon patterns is different cultures see different shapes in those dark patches, a rabbit in several Asian traditions, a toad in some Mesoamerican stories, a face in Western folklore etc. it could be a lovely tie-in with the language and integration work you’re already planning, letting children look at the pattern and decide what shape they see themselves.Hi Orla,
Wonderful lesson you have outlined here. If you want to show the children some of the images taken by NASAs telescopes, here is a great resource: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/webb/multimedia/images/#search
Just filter for whichever planet they want to see. Its amazing what we can see now!Hi Rachael,
Fab lesson plan. You can also introduce a bit of colour science into the lesson when working inside. Put some coloured cellophane over the torches and see how the shadows change: <span class=”TextRun Underlined SCXW213808903 BCX0″ lang=”EN-US” xml:lang=”EN-US” data-contrast=”none”><span class=”NormalTextRun SCXW213808903 BCX0″ data-ccp-charstyle=”Hyperlink”>https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/150-science-experiments/light-sound-experiments/make-coloured-shadows/</span></span>Hi Monica,
Thanks for joining us, we hope you find this module interesting. Great space fact. 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/.
Hello Caitriona,
Welcome to the module and thanks for sharing your space fact. This is because the moon surface has very little atmosphere (only trace gases known as an exosphere: https://science.nasa.gov/moon/lunar-atmosphere/) and so the footprints remain undisturbed for very long periods. Unless something else comes along and impacts the same surface!