This forum has been very informative for planning space week in school.
Here are some ideas I will be using going forward.
Using the song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star-What are stars? What do stars do? Why do we call some people Superstars? How
many stars do we think are in the night sky? Why can we see lots of
stars some nights and very few on other nights?
Have the children work in pairs and close their eyes. They take turns to pretend that their partner is an alien who has landed here to find out more about humans. They have to ask each other what the physical
appearance of an alien looks like. What size are you? What colour are you? Do you have arms/legs/eyes? Allow the children to then sketch their version of what their alien will look like.
Give each group different coloured tubs of Play-Doh, matchsticks, pipe cleaners and create their own alien.
As an extension use the models for number work, classifying and sorting.