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Thank you for sharing that book suggestion. https://www.adamscloud.com/products/adams-amazing-space-adventure
I think there is the opportunity to discuss the language and descriptions of the Moon, Sun and planets from the book, and compare them to Earth.
‘The Moon is too bumpy, the Sun is too hot, Saturn’s air is so bad’ etc.
Deirdre,
even though SESE Science uses the language of ‘guess’ when talking about predictions [Predicting • guess and suggest what will happen next in structured situations – Skills development for infant classes / Predicting
• suggest outcomes of an investigation, based on observations – 1st/2nd class]it is vital that the children justify what they think with reference to their scientific understanding.
If they understand very little about a topic and need to guess, then build in more time to let the children observe, explore and wonder and then they can try to explain the phenomena. From their explanation will come the investigation topic.
A child who notices that the tissue falls slowly and it floats down and the toy bear falls faster and straight down might form their own ideas about forces and can explore them by perhaps combining the tissue and the bear to make a parachute for the bear. Will it fall at an in-between speed? Will it fall faster than the tissue by itself?
Niamh,
didn’t it look like the class were having fun! The teacher whose school hosted the filming is a facilitator for the Curious Minds teacher CPD that is offered all year. You can find details of that cpd here:
https://www.sfi.ie/engagement/curious-minds/professional-development-for-teachers/
It is either for whole schools, or for individual teachers.
Hi everyone, I’m Niall and will be facilitating the second cohort of this course.
I am head of Research at MTU and work with Frances, Jane and Danielle at Blackrock Castle Observatory.I have facilitated other courses on Space with primary teachers and look forward to learning from you.
Please note that the forum is the same as course 1 (which ran from July 1 to now) so you may be responding to people who have already completed the course.