Storybots is AMAZING!

This catchy song about the Solar System was played since day one of the unit right through to the end. The children absolutely LOVED it! It brought in that fantastic musical element to learning, where the children could learn some facts off by heart through song. We even had some epic rap battles to the song :) Storybots also have Youtube clips for the Moon, Sun, Earth and Stars! Youtube is just such an amazing resource.
The link for the clip is below, as well of a snippet of how it looks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHAqT4hXnMw

Sequence of lessons

The sequence that I taught the kiddies about space was:

• The galaxy/solar system
• Mercury and Venus
•  Earth
•  Layers of the Earth
•  Mars and its rover
• The gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn)
• The ice giants (Uranus and Neptune)
• The Sun
•  Stars
• Constellations
• Gravity

I      I'll be posting up my lessons plans, as well as resources needed for these lessons over the next few days

My space adventures in the classroom

Hello all!

So I’m writing this blog based on the wonderful journey I went through on my 8 week long final teaching practicum with 6-8 year olds.

In particular there was one aspect of my teaching that I thought was insanely fun for both myself and my students, and that was learning about the solar system. I will be posting up a bunch of things that I did, as well as referring to the people whose ideas I borrowed. I will also be sharing some of the cross curricular links that I was able to make with this subject- which is always a bonus! ;)

I hope that you can use some of these ideas in the classroom, because it will save you a LOT of time not having to search all over the place.