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Activity set: The sun and shadows.
Junior/ Senior InfantsIntroduction: Read the book ‘What Makes a Shadow’
Questioning: What do you need to make a shadow?
Activities:
Go outside on a sunny day. Children work in pairs to draw around their shadows with chalk.
Children go on a shadow hunt and find shadows made by other objects.Classroom discussion:
1. What does your shadow look like?
2. How do you think shadows are formed?Classroom activity
Set up group activities with children using lamps and various objects to make shadows.
Draw pictures of the shadows and colour in black.
Questioning: Does the shadow change it’s position if you shine the torch from a different angle.Conclusion: children should explain their understanding of shadows.
Hi Alison,
This lesson sounds like great fun and also something very different. I will use with my class next year. Anything with teddies and a bit of adventure goes down well.
An inquiry based activity I have done is with 2nd class. Our topic was Irish seals.
As part of learning about Irish seals we explored how seals stay warm in the cold Irish waters.
Lesson: What is insulation?I introduced the lesson by letting children choose the best clothes for keeping us warm in winter. Each child came up and picked an item of clothing from the basket and explained why it good to wear in cold weather. Examples to choose from gloves, snow boots, hat etc.
Experiment: Melting Ice experiment
Learning outcome: The children will learn which materials are the best insulators.Question: which materials will best slow down the ice cube from melting.
Materials plastic cups, ice cubes, a timer. Materials: wooly hat, bubble wrap, newspaper etc.
Steps.
1.Wrap one material around each cup . Leave one cup with no material as the test cup.
2. Place one ice cube in each cup.
3. Start the timer, observe and record every 5 minutes.
4. Analyse the results. Which material was the best/ worst insulator.
