SUPERHEROES AND SOLAR SYSTEM PROJECT.

In the school where I do my practices we work the content that we have to according to the age, but we develop at the same time different projects related to various topics. This time it was about Superheroes.

1.- The first activity that we did was about creating their own superheroe, with his own name, clothes, favourite food, pet, hobbies, fears, etc.

2.- After that we played the following video to learn a new song and give some ideas about the possible super powers they can have.

3.- We did a brainstorm to now what they think and which knowledges they have about superheroes.

4.- After that, we explained that some superheroes only go out at night. We took advantage of this to explain the concepts "day" and "night". We went to the nap room to live the "day" and the "night".

5.- Following the previous activity, we took the concept of "night" and we explained the different moon phases. And we did a worksheet related to this.

6.- To live the different moon phases, we did an activity with soap bubbles, and depending on how much you blow you got a different moon phase. 

Although the end was inevitable, the kids enjoyed it a lot and they experienced the moon phases. Now each time that they wash their hands and do bubbles with the soap they say which phase is.

7.- We asked the children to bring some paperboard boxes to create a spaceship and a robot to send them to the space.

8.- In the space we have the moon, but we have too the planets and all this forms the solar system. So, we did a picture about the solar system:

9.- We played them a video related with the planets:

10.- We did a mural with the solar system:

11.- And we made our own planets with newspaper, recycling the paper:

12.- We did superheroes costumes for the kids and they had a meeting with a "real" superhero. (Using the whiteboard, we established connection with the concierge disguised like a superhero who spoke to them and said them to be  good and help everyone they can, at home and to their friends at school).

13.- And finally, we sent the spaceship and the robot to the moon!

As you can see this project has a lot of activities, we did it in five weeks more or less, attending that it was a parallel project apart from the activities that we did everyday in class.

I hope you find it useful and you can use some ideas.

Have fun teaching,

Laura.