Activity Set: Space and Aliens
This lesson is taught out assuming we have been covering the topic of space and aliens. I’m also directing this lesson to my SET setting.
I feel drawn to having to do a lesson on space and aliens- how fun!.
Introduction:
I would set up a space exploration station. Here, the children can touch different textures like smooth foil representing spaceships, soft cotton balls as clouds, scrunched foil as craters, sensory bottles filled with glitter and shiny stars, cuddly toy aliens, sandpaper to represent the moon’s surface. As the children explore the box we will engage in lots of talk and discussion reinforcing the vocabulary of space.
- what would we see if we went to space?
- what do you think aliens look like?
- are we able to travel to space?
- how could we travel to space?
Main body:
Create an alien friend who has come to visit you on earth.
what would they look like- provide various materials including googly eyes, pipe cleaners, match sticks etc.
- what shape, colour size would they be?
- what food would they eat?
- what liquid would they drink?
- where would they live?
- what would you call them?
- what’s their favourite activity?
- how do they travel? walk, crawl, fly, hop?
Once completed the children could engage in pair work, whereby their alien friends meet. What would they talk about? what questions would they ask each other?
Conclusion:
I would close the lesson with a yoga session- based on going to meet an alien in space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kanagmDoZw
Next lesson: we would create a diorama for the alien using a shoebox and base it on the information given in this lesson about where they said their alien would live.