ALIENSWe come in peace --- or for your natural resources

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Explain the difficulties of space exploration

Know different types of craft utilised

Explain the likelihood and importance of water on another planet

IN YOUR TABLE GROUPS

Make a list on how you would detect aliens sending you a message from millions of light years away.

What would you be looking for ?

Key words : waves, telescopes, light.

SWAP YOUR WORK

Swap your book with another group.

Can you add any more detail

Key words and detail improve your grades

SHARE AND EXPAND

Ok get your book back

Ok let me pick on some groups

Lets expand our work, write down answers you have not got.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Explain the difficulties of space exploration

Know different types of craft utilised

Explain the likelihood and importance of water on another planet

OK SO WE ARE LOOKING FOR LIFE

Imagine

You are in a space craft looking at earth

How would you detect life here

Bullet points please

OK SO WE ARE LOOKING FOR LIFE

Imagine

You are in a space craft looking at earth 5,000 years ago

How would you detect life

Bullet points please

OK SO WE ARE LOOKING FOR LIFE

Imagine

You are in a space craft looking at earth 1,500,000 million years ago, only bacteria existed

How would you detect life here

Bullet points please

HOW CAN WE DO IT, CAN WE FIND LIFE There are many points to consider Are we looking for past life Are we looking for bacteria on a planet What conditions will a planet need for life How will we get there What can we use

Fill in your worksheet from information around the room

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Explain the difficulties of space exploration

Know different types of craft utilised

Use your worksheet to produce a paragraph

Explain the likelihood and importance of water on another planet

YOU ARE THE BOSS OF NASA

The president of America has given you a job

You have been charged with finding alien life, how would you do it.

Remember to add key words and as much detail as possible.