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Hi Stephanie, Fantastic lesson! It might be cool to consider the <span class=”TextRun Underlined SCXW244660212 BCX8″ lang=”EN-US” xml:lang=”EN-US” data-contrast=”none”><span class=”NormalTextRun SCXW244660212 BCX8″ data-ccp-charstyle=”Hyperlink”>ESA – Juice and Europa Clipper: Dream team to Jupiter</span></span> <span class=”EOP SCXW244660212 BCX8″ data-ccp-props=”{}”> missions as if we are to find life it might be very different from us based on its conditions. You could also draw links between the Apollo missions and the Artemis missions today! </span>
This sounds brilliant Stephanie! Model magic is a fantastic one for making aliens, and then the classic pipe cleaners and tinfoil as well!
Hi Alyson, I love the idea of using that book! It can be super fun to stress that the appearance or physiology of Aliens and any other living thing for that matter is dictated by its material surroundings! For example Bone density would be reduced for humans that would live on mars.
Hi Sarah this is a wonderful lesson plan. Just to recommend some materials, tinfoil to make aliens – that would look less like humans and model magic which is a fantastic as you can use it as an opportunity to teach children about colours as they only have the primary colours and one has to mix them together, a very tactile experience for younger children. Incidentally colours help us identify what sort of exoplanets(planets outside our solar system) we are looking at.
For your own interest this explains what I mean.
Fab Activity Ciara! What might be cool is introducing the concept of measurement as well. Filling up a tub placing it in a larger one and seeing how putting in different objects displaces water. This would be demonstrating Archimedes principle.
Fantastic Fact! and just look at how they have to wash their hair!
Hey Aoife this sounds fantastic! Some resources for exploring the night sky
Hi Anna-Rose
This sounds fab! In my experience getting children to create parachutes to protect eggs is a great one (albeit a bit messy). Be careful to express the difference between air resistance and the fact that all objects fall at the same rate. The rate of gravity 9.8 m/s²!
It might be cool to tie this into a history lesson.
This experiment was also demonstrated on the moon during apollo 15 in 1971 where a feather and a hammer fell at the same rate.
Hi Amanda, fab mind map!
Pluto getting reclassified as a dwarf planet is a really interesting one! People often cite it being too small which is only part of the reason! In 2006 the international astronomical union IAU decided to create criteria for planetary status
The body must;
- orbit the sun
- reach hydrostatic equilibrium – basically have enough mass for gravity to cause it to be shaped spherical
- Have cleared the neighborhood around its orbit – this means be able to move other bodies out of its own orbit
Pluto doesn’t meet number three.
Did you know that Pluto has its own moons?
Hi Amanda, fab mind map!
Pluto getting reclassified as a dwarf planet is a really interesting one! People often cite it being too small which is only part of the reason! In 2006 the international astronomical union IAU decided to create criteria for planetary status
The body must;
- orbit the sun
- reach hydrostatic equilibrium – basically have enough mass for gravity to cause it to be shaped spherical
- Have cleared the neighborhood around its orbit – this means be able to move other bodies out of its own orbit
Pluto doesn’t meet number three.
Did you know that Pluto has its own moons?
Hi Anna-Rose,
The way in which you have uploaded this is fine! For future reference you can provide an image or a link depending on if you use paper or software. Both icons are on the top right as you write your note or response ! Hope this helps.
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Hi Lucy! The age of the GRS is actually contested. Up until 2024 we were certain it was just under 400 years old however a new study might suggest the age of around 190 years old. Here’s a cool article discussing this.
Hi Emma fantastic fact!
We know the main factor determining the shape of celestial bodies is how they spin on their own axis – this explains how the earth slightly bulges at the equator.
Early in the moons life it was closer to the earth and mostly hot liquid surrounded by a thin crust; it was also spinning much faster than it is today. We understand that this is an important chapter in the history of its shape!
Hey Sharon, This is fantastic! some of my favourite space videos involve how water moves on the ISS
Water on the ISS – for Science!
Karen Nyberg Shows How You Wash Hair in SpaceIf you do use the international space station as an example it might be interesting to know that they plan to decommission the space station and deorbit it by 2030!
