Activity Set: Space and Aliens
It was very useful to see the DPSM/ESRO Framework for Inquiry applied in The Classroom Resource Booklet on Mars. I think this would work really well during Science Week where pupil’s complete challenges:
Challenge 1 – Can you create a landscape like Mars?
– Explore Google Mars on ipads.
– Discuss and investigate landscapes using different trays containing soil, sand with duplo small world space characters.
– Use play dough to experiment making Mars with modelling accessories, then groups take tour of each others work.
Challenge 2 – Can you create an alien to live on Mars?
– In pairs look at a range of books including Moving to Mars, Toys in Space, Aliens in Underpants Save the World, Here Come the Aliens, then brainstorm ideas in groups.
– Complete individual designs.
– Use clay to make alien and paint.
– Name alien and hot seat as character, pupils to ask questions about their life on Mars etc.