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Hi Emily,
Its fantastic to see teachers adapting lessons to better suit their students, if you were getting the children to make aliens I recommend model magic – usually sensory approved and enjoyed by younger children who are more sensitive to that in my experience. I often find Paxi great for videos too if youre introducting topics though media like photos and videos.
Hi Marcia,
I love the sound of this lesson! Might be cool to consider the kind of equipment that navigators used like astrolabes etc. ! These can often be made in the classroom.
Hi Alison,
Thank you for your wonderful lesson plan! For your own interest this discusses colour differences and why stars appear different to planets! The fact that Stellarium provides sky culture options might also be of interest to you!
Hi Kate,
Thanks for a wonderful lesson plan! knowing that you can change the sky cultures on Stellarium might be helpful here! If you’re interested in a crafting aspect here are some cool ideas from one of the ESA kids competitions!
Valarie,
I love this! Places of astronomical significance Newgrange Facts for Kids would be cool to consider.
Hi Wendy,
This is a lovely lesson, I recommend using stellarium here as well as the fact that how you can tell the difference between a planet and a star when looking up to the night sky is that planets do not twinkle, mainly because they are much closer to us! This fact and differences in colours are explored more here if you are interested!
Hi Amy,
This is fab! Some things to consider – Venus is often called Earths evil twin as it is the same size and is a terrestrial planet but is incredibly hot! We have organisms living in and around volcanoes here on Earth might be another thing to consider in this context.
Hi Niamh
This is wonderful. I especially enjoy your join the dots piece.
– Stellarium Web Online Star Map free, open source and you can change the constellation cultures. In case you have not come across this already.
Hi Sinéad
This is fab! I love discussing different cultural interpretations of the stars. Some resources that might interest you if you haven’t come across them already
– Stellarium Web Online Star Map free, open source and better with the App! It also allows you to change the sky cultures.
– Celestial Echoes: The Night Sky in Irish Folklore | In the Dark more for your own interest!
– I think the Polynesians have had one of the most interesting ways of using the stars! Māori Navigators: Ancient Seafaring Skills – Polynesian – Little Cellist
– I remember stories from when I was younger of farmers using the winter constellations in this country to know when to take harvest! One likely candidate based on our European counterparts would of course be the Orion Constellation.
Hi Gemma,
Thank you for the wonderful lesson plan! Also I always recommend model magic for alien or planet making as it can be less messy and provides an opportunity to teach about colours! Space can be a pretty extreme place and it can be interesting to take inspiration from some of the harsher environments at home like Volcanoes and the life that exists inside and in their proximity here is a small list! As even some of our closest neighbors are pretty hostile like Venus! And perhaps here is something more accessible for the children themselves we have just weird animals on earth in general!
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.
