Introduction

Surprises. I love surprises, boxes of chocolates, my old teachers saying "no holiday homework", all amazing surprises. However, I don't like surprises when it comes to landing on a world that no one has been to before. So you need to plan as you approach the new planet. 

Here is your opportunity to be creative. Design your planet;

• What colours can you see? What does that mean? 

• How big is your planet (in relation to Earth)? What does that mean in terms of gravity? (Hint big objects, bigger gravity)

• Now you know what the strength of gravity is, what can you hypothesise about any flora and fauna you meet on the planet? (Hint, can large animals like giraffes survive like they do

• If you meet tool users, will they have built homes? 

STEAM process

Analysis - What do you understand the problem to be? What are your success criteria? What are you working towards? What would your success criteria be? I would assume that you need a clear idea of what it is you are going to be landing on. 

Design - Sketch out some ideas. How can you represent your model? You can access all sorts of cool stuff, but you need to have an idea of what you are going to achieve before you start. 

Build - Make it! Can you hang your display? Add your computer presentation. Whatever skills you have you can use to complete your presentation. Canva? PowerPoint? Sway? CoSpaces? See if you can use an EduCube to produce a 3D model of your planet. 

Evaluation - Link back to your success criteria - did you succeed? If so, yeah! If not, what else could you have done?

Build ideas

• papier mache ball with a thin film of clay around it to represent the planet, decorated to represent the  planet you are approaching

• Model animals, who are you meeting on your new planet?

• Drawings of animals, again, who are you meeting on your new planet?

• 3D hologram using CoSpaces. Click on the link here to find out more about this.