How do you sensitize and excite children between the ages of five and eleven in Astronomy? Jonah from UNAWE Kenya came up with a wonderful idea; why can’t the children build up the solar system from clay? Many other things happened that day.
The children, as a vote of thanks, sang us a song that has been ringing in our heads for the past few days and I think will stay there longer. The song starts with twinkle twinkle little star then stretches to the alphabet. We are challenged; next time we are here we must have a solar system rhyme. We’ll be back next week… Mmh...
After lunch, we left the Ray of Hope Community Centre Kawangware, dirty but enriched and with a clearer vision on how to engage young children. Indeed it was a two way learning process.
Read more about this first visit to Ray of Hope Community Centre on the UNAWE Kenya website.
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