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Hi Gemma, space is for everyone, so no need to feel behind in your knowledge. That’s what this course is there to help with.
Hi Emily, another great space fun fact! And Venus is also the hottest planet in the solar system. Would your pupils like to live there I wonder?
Hi Wendy. That’s a great fun fact. The speed of light is difficult to comprehend because it’s so fast. We always thought of it as travelling round the earth about 7.5 times!
The two lessons – “floating and sinking” and “moon phases” are great examples of how the same approach to enquiry-based learning works in apparently very different scenarios. This is a valuable early learning for the pupils and should build confidence that similar approaches can be used again and again to help record and understand diverse physical phenomena. Both lessons enable and indeed encourage individual and group reflection. Really nice.
Really nice lesson. Covers many of the critical methodologies associated with enquiry-based learning. Pupils can add their own observations, some of which might affect the outcome (e.g., hollow or solid) and some which do not (e.g., red or blue colouring of two objects made from the same material).
Hi Sarah. That’s a space fact that’s hard to get one’s head around. Great way to help kids visualise large numbers and gets them to think of comparing two very different types of objects.
Hi Fionnuala. Great that you have a child with a particular interest in space. Keeping them engaged poses fascinating and different challenges to kids who are less interested. If you do have a fun space fact to share, here’s a good place to do so!
Welcome Sinead. New ideas are the lifeblood of the forum and some good new ideas already evident in the forum. Any fun space fact to share?
Hi Sarah, delighted to know you’re hungry to expand your knowledge and hopefully this course will do just that. If you have a fun fact, do share!
Great fun fact Stephanie. And just imagine how many stars there are that you can see with your eyes apart from the sun. The usual guess is in the millions, but it’s only about 2500.
Hi Evelyn, great to see the enthusiasm. If you have a fun space fact, do share! I’m fascinated to know what it might be. There’s no shortage to choose from.
Rachel,
this can be a lovely activity of drawing early in a unit on space and aliens, and if you retain the drawings, they can return to them at the end of the unit and compare how much more they understand at the end. This is similar to the assessment in the EU-UNAWE, Universe in Your Classroom that we mention in module 4.