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