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I really enjoyed watching the different ideas for inquiry based learning and will be using the missing sweeties as a fun lesson in September!
One inquiry based lesson I enjoy doing is around bridges. We are very close to a castle and visit it often as well as learning about its history and how it is different from other castles in Ireland. I like to introduce the idea of a moat and how could people cross the moat – either to leave the castle or to gain entry! I use this as my stimulus and then get the children to design bridges using objects in the classroom. We then test them by placing a toy knight or horse on to see if they hold up or if they fall.
I have also seen the idea of giving students a piece of paper, two books/cups and a coin. The students must come up with ways to make the paper strong enough to hold the coin.
I like the idea of keeping a STEM journal to record our inquiries and draw/write down our ideas and if they worked/what we learnt.
Hi Christine! That is a really cool fact! I will definitely be using this one with my class next year! How cool!
Hi , I’m Helen and I am going to have First next year. In our school we always spend a month looking at Space. The children always love this topic! I decided to do this course to try to help me come up with ways to encourage further STEM learning on the topic as it is always such a big hit!
I always really enjoy looking at Astronaut Chris Hadfield when exploring space in my class-he has some great videos. One of my favourite facts inspired by Chris – and by this module and its focus on gravity- is that you can cry in Space but your tears don’t fall! Instead the tears form one “blob” of water under your eye.
