Today I put this picture on the screen to see whether the children could identify the planet Earth in a wider context and what other understandings they had of what they were looking at.
Claire: (pointing to the sun) That one looks really hot
Campbell: It looks like lava
Eva: It looks like the sun.
Charlie: The sun is made of lava
Claire: The bright thing makes everything hot in space.
Campbell: The lava is made of the sun
A: It's on fire
Claire: (Pointing to orbital rings drawn on picture) There are rings around it they are small and then get bigger.
A:It's the moon
Claire: The moon is on the ring
Eva: The rings are made of string
Claire:I know they are made of plastic
Charlie: (Pointing to the planet Earth) Thats Earth. I've seen planets.
Connor: Theres one with rings. I don't know what the rings are made of. They are made of gas or gold.
I then pointed to the commet in the picture
A and Eva: Shooting star
A: Lots of stars
Claire: I've seen stars in the sly.
I then pointed to the band of meteors
Thomas: Space rocks
Charlie: Spacerocks from the moon.
Tyra: From other planets
Claire: what are the blue lines and why are the stars going around.
Really nice to see you getting that thinking going Room5. Keep it up.
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