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. This would be great to use in class or even for science week where pupil’s complete challenges:
Challenge 1 – Let’s create a landscape like Mars!
• Explore Google Mars on ipads.
• Investigate landscapes – containers with soil, lentils with duplo small world space characters.
• Make Mars models with play dough,
Challenge 2 – What would an alien on Mars look like?
• Explore alien characters from a range of movies/stories. (The Grinch, Monsters Inc, Here Come the Aliens) – in groups, brainstorm the ideas.
• Complete individual designs.
• Option to use crayons, clay, paint to make aliens.
• Name alien and hot seat as character, pupils to ask questions about their life on Mars.