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I love the fact that the tubes can be from recycled materials. All too often I feel that I have to buy the styrofoam spheres to replicate the solar system with the children in my class and they are so expensive and it honestly doesn’t feel good to be going out buying them. The tubes have given me an alternative way of thinking about teaching the solar system and including the concept of gravity too.
Plan how your students could “observe and record the positions of the sun when rising and setting and at different times of the day”
I really love the idea of this. I feel that it would need to be done across the whole school year and would perhaps work best in the senior end of the school. I would introduce this year long project with the children by bringing them out to the yard to discuss and observe where the sun is in the early morning and how it moves (or the earth moves!) throughout the day. I think that it would be useful to spend a week in September just observing this fact. We would then plan on where best to photograph the sun and the times of day. This could be carried out by different children over the various seasons. It could be assigned as a class job to 2 children each week, to photograph and document the position of the sun at a set time, from a set position on the yard. A class record could be built up over the months and reflected upon, making predictions as the year progresses.
I would teach discrete lessons on the seasons and how they work to compliment and enhance understanding.
