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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.
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?
