Duration: 20 minutes
SPIRIT Skills:
- Problem-solving
- Curiosity, sense of wonder and openness
- Critical thinking
Brief Description:
The students study a lunar landscape from a picture book.
The teacher shows the illustrations while telling the story.
How does this develop particular SPIRIT skills:
To spark wonder about the Moon and, through various questions, lead the students to the topic of craters.
What do we want to achieve regarding SPIRIT skill development (student understanding and/or behaviour)?
You can amaze children and spark their curiosity during a picture book story about gravity and the lunar landscape by telling the story vividly, asking questions and leaving room for wonder. Use surprising illustrations, let children imagine what it feels like to jump on the moon, and compare this to their own experiences on Earth. You will see curiosity, sense of wonder in:
- Wide eyes, open mouths, or enthusiastic reactions (‘Wow, can you really jump that high on the moon?’)
- Asking lots of questions (‘Why do things float there?’)
- Imagining and sharing their own ideas (‘Could you fly if you took a big jump?’)
- Wanting to imitate or experiment after the story (jumping, dropping things, drawing)
Their behaviour shows that they are fascinated, actively thinking along and want to discover more. Their results include imaginative drawings, stories or experiments that build on the picture book.
Academic/Curriculum Objective connection
- Listening to narrative and artistic-literary texts:
- Based on age-appropriate spoken stories, students will be able to:
- Understand the essence of the story;
- Follow and understand the storyline;
- Reconstruct the storyline fairly literally;
- Express personal feelings and opinions about the story;
- Distinguish between reality and fantasy;
- Assess the authenticity of story details.
- Reflecting on word meanings in concrete speaking situations
- Answer teacher questions about a topic covered within different subject areas:
- Respond to questions related to meanings;
In the translation it must be adapted! They are the national curriculum!
Materials and tools needed for implementation
Pictures of the moon landscape.
Preparation notes
Story of the book.
Guided Questions
- What does the moon look like in the picture?
- Have you ever seen a crescent moon like this?
- Can the moon look different?
- Is the moon really just a crescent?
- What shape is the landscape?
- Is the landscape flat? Or are there places where you go uphill?
Stage Debriefing Questions (Optional)
- If you could jump on the moon just like the character in our story, do you think you would jump higher or lower than you did in our classroom, and why?
- The story showed us that the moon has many big, round holes called craters. What do you imagine happened to create those shapes on the surface?
- If you were packing a suitcase to go on a trip to the moon like the characters in our book, what is the one special thing you would want to take with you to help you explore, and why?
Tips and Tricks for dealing with stage challenges
- Not Applicable.