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Hi Sarah,

This sounds fab. It can be great to consider what life in extreme environments looks like here as inspiration for aliens! I also recommend this resource for thinking about where aliens might come from.

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Hi Annette,

This sounds wonderful. That is an extensive list of stories. I would also recommend this video and this resource  as well.

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Hi Patrick

This all sounds fab! I find looking at life on earth in extreme environments to be a great way to get people thinking about what aliens might look like. I also cant recommend enough using model magic for constructing planets, you can even use it to explain colours!

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Hi Grace,

I love this idea! Definitely have a look at the sky cultures feature on stellarium beforehand for some inspiration.

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Hi Bríd,

Wonderful to hear youll be participating in space week. I find the Nirks on youtube can be very engaging, might be useful for lessons like this one.

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Hi Pauline,

This sounds wonderful. I would recommend having a look at the sky cultures feature on stellarium for inspiration. Also it might be cool to use images from this resource to incorporate scale!

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Hi Jenny,

This is fab. I enjoy your use of mathematical language here. Concepts such as mapping out can be incredibly important for our space telescopes particularly Gaia, some of the contents of this resource can be used for younger classes, even just pictures to image how many stars there really are out there!

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Hi Yvonne,

This sounds lovely. I always find showing the Gaia images can be an exciting one for scale, as is mentioned in the course. Even just images from this resource can be cool for younger children.

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Hi Ellen,

This sounds fab. I absolutely recommend having a look at the sky cultures feature on Stellarium for this lesson to give the senior infants some inspiration for their constellations!

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Hi Síle,

This sounds wonderful. For your own interest see this article on the Van Gough painting and maths!

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Hi Linda,

This sounds brilliant! This resource might be of use to you even though its catered to a lunar landscape! After all some like to describe the current Artemis missions as a practice run for going to mars.

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Hi Colette,

This sounds fab! It might be cool to consider how we might communicate with aliens as a lot of scientific thought and action has been put into this question!

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Hi Rachael,

This sounds wonderful. You might be interested in why stars appear different colours for this lesson!

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Hi Jackie,

This sounds wonderful. This resource might be of use to you. Also fun fact about twinkle twinkle, its actually an excellent tool for teaching you how to spot a planet in the sky! as they can often appear a similar size to stars but we can tell something is a planet if it is not twinkling!

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Hi Michelle,

This sounds fab. It might be worth looking at the sky cultures function on Stellarium or for your own interest this.

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