To create an exciting and engaging, and relevant, curriculum... we
have to link it to the world that our children live in. We have to
present them with real problems and challenges that excite them and
allow them not only to learn in school but to learn about themselves and
their world beyond the confines of the school day, term or year.
Consider Space Junk...
Space Junk article
Space Junk Wikipedia page
Asking our children to respond to this challenge as part of an 'Our Place in Space' Topic could get very interesting...
We would want to know about the planets
We would want to know about space
We'd want to know about rockets and satellites and space missions and scientific breakthroughs and the acts of heroism and folly that have made them possible
We would need to know about gravity and orbits and the atmosphere
We would need to know about the Earth's and the other planet's relationship with the Sun
We would need to know about the future prospects for our planet
We would need to know how these communications systems work
We'd need to know a little bit about what they do
We would need to know what would be affected were they to stop
We'd need to begin to imagine a different kind of Earth
We'd need to think about the prospects for people, their lives, their jobs and their prospects if many of our technologies and communications systems ceased to exist
We would need to consider the long term implications for the planet
We would need to do some research
We may need to contact some experts in the field
We would need to begin thinking about solutions to the problem of Space Junk
We'd need to do drawings
We'd need to make presentations
We'd need to share our thoughts with one another and be open to the challenges that would be put forward, based on scientific reasoning
We might share some of our ideas with the experts
We would certainly raise awareness of the issues through diagrams, films, booklets and posters
We may be the ones who inspire a child to make this their life's work and we may be the ones that inspired that child to solve the problem and make a lasting difference to the world.
Consider Space Junk...
Space Junk article
Space Junk Wikipedia page
Asking our children to respond to this challenge as part of an 'Our Place in Space' Topic could get very interesting...
We would want to know about the planets
We would want to know about space
We'd want to know about rockets and satellites and space missions and scientific breakthroughs and the acts of heroism and folly that have made them possible
We would need to know about gravity and orbits and the atmosphere
We would need to know about the Earth's and the other planet's relationship with the Sun
We would need to know about the future prospects for our planet
We would need to know how these communications systems work
We'd need to know a little bit about what they do
We would need to know what would be affected were they to stop
We'd need to begin to imagine a different kind of Earth
We'd need to think about the prospects for people, their lives, their jobs and their prospects if many of our technologies and communications systems ceased to exist
We would need to consider the long term implications for the planet
We would need to do some research
We may need to contact some experts in the field
We would need to begin thinking about solutions to the problem of Space Junk
We'd need to do drawings
We'd need to make presentations
We'd need to share our thoughts with one another and be open to the challenges that would be put forward, based on scientific reasoning
We might share some of our ideas with the experts
We would certainly raise awareness of the issues through diagrams, films, booklets and posters
We may be the ones who inspire a child to make this their life's work and we may be the ones that inspired that child to solve the problem and make a lasting difference to the world.
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