Many people in this forum have mentioned this stimulus but i just love the book ‘Aliens Wear Underpants’. I find this to be a really gripping stimulus for discussing space and aliens.
We would then do a KWL chart and we would discuss what we already know about space and aliens.
Once we have discussed all we know I would ask each child what they think an alien looks like? We would draw or paint aliens, we would make our aliens using 3-d materials – clay, construction, playdough.
Then we would discuss and classify our aliens. We would then talk about the aliens home in space. We would create a small world area with constellations (stars) and the moon using concrete objects. Then we would play with our aliens in the space areas. I would make these lessons as interactive as possible. I think using the tuff tray for this would be best.
We would also create rockets and spaceships these could then be used in the small world area so we could really incorporate it with AISTEAR