4.9.3 – Design your own alien

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Lesson Duration:

45 mins.

What should you expect from this lesson?

By the end of the lesson, children can name the planets in our solar system and draw similarities and differences between the Sun, the Moon and the Earth. Adapted from https://www.unawe.org/activity/eu-unawe1304/

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How to carry out this lesson at home:

Resources:
• Research on one planet of the Solar System (done during previous lesson)
• PPT – What’s in Our Solar System
• PPT – The Planets
• PPT – Design your own alien
• Design your own alien activity – teacher’s resource Link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YuNcGnG471B5ShQA2l3ZTPHM0mtGDyaR

ENGAGE
Present the PPT – What’s in Our Solar System and The Planets and revise what was covered in the previous lesson.
Inform the children that they will be designing an alien to inhabit a planet of their choice.
Preferably the planet they have researched about.
They will design the alien to be suited to live on that planet.

INQUIRE
PPT – Design your own alien Identify which conditions make Earth habitable for life and how these conditions affect life.
Individually or in groups, children will create an extra-terrestial life form suited for the specific environmental conditions of that planet.

Children will:
• Discuss and plan the alien.
• Design the alien
• Create the alien using everyday materials (optional activity which can be linked to design and technology.)

ASSESS and EVALUATE
Children will present the alien to the class and explain any features which make it suitable for life on that planet.
All children’s work (planet fact file and alien designs) may be displayed in class.
Multi-Disciplinary Links:
 Mathematics:
 Can link to diameter of planets
 Can link to clockwise or anticlockwise orbit of the planets
 Literacy:
 Conducting research
 Oracy – communicating research
 Reading – finding facts about planets
 Digital Literacy:
 Use of multimedia resources
 Creative Arts and Design and Technology
 Designing their own alien
 Presenting research in an appealing way

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