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Hi Aoife,

This sounds lovely. I especially enjoy the the bar charts. Here are some examples of esa rockets with some videos.

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Hi Antonia,

This sounds lovely. It can be cool to integrate some cultural stories into this lesson. With the sky cultures feature on Stellarium and perhaps this would be of interest also.

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Hi Annmarie,

This sounds fab. This resource sounds like it might be good for this lesson.

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Hi Keith,

This sounds fantastic. I absolutely recommend stellarium for this lesson. This resource might be useful too.

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Hi Elaine,

This sounds fab! I find model magic in addition to or instead of play dough to be really useful when doing activities like this. For inspiration for what aliens might look like it can be useful to look at creatures on earth living in extreme environments .

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Hi Serena,

This is fab, I really like the idea of putting the children in the aliens shoes! It might be cool to consider in this lesson where aliens might come from!

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Hi Sarah,

This sounds wonderful. This video sounds like it could be a good resource for this lesson.

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Hi Ruth,

This sounds great! It could be cool to encourage children to look for planets or the ISS in the sky too! Stellarium can be very helpful for this. For example you can tell the difference between planets and stars in the sky as planets don’t twinkle on account of being much closer to us.

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Hi Paula,

This is fab. It sounds like this might be a useful resource for the lesson!

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Hi Melanie,

This sounds great some ideas for what rockets are used for can be found here.

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Hi Leanne,

This is great. It sounds like bicycle pump rockets would be great here.

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Hi Kieran,

This sounds fab. I would recommend having a look at this for your plan and also Stellarium software.

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Hi Karl,

This sounds fab! there are some resources here that sound like they would be useful for you.

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Hi Jill,

This sounds wonderful. If you are discussing aliens it might be coo, to consider where they might be found – exoplanets for example.

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Hi Gráinne,

This sounds fab. Demonstrating a vinegar and baking soda rocket at the start of a lesson like this one can be good for comparison and also getting children excited.

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