Introduction
This lesson looks at recent developments in the search for habitable planets and opens up the topic of the possibility of life on other planets.
Topic
Space exploration to find habitable planets
Age
Teenage/adult
Level
A2/B1
Timing
60-90 mins
Aims:
- To help students understand a text about space exploration
- To develop students' vocabulary on the topic of astronomy and space exploration
- To develop students' communication and discussion skills
Materials
Lesson plan: guide for teacher on procedure.
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Worksheets: can be printed out for use in class.
- worksheet - seven tasks
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By Sally Trowbridge
The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in MS Word format - right click on the attachment below and save it on your computer.
Copyright - please read
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Comments
Good subject
This is a good subject, I find that students, wherever they're from, are curious about what's out their on other planets!
Error in the lesson plan
I noticed one mistake in your materials:The famous astronomer the mission is named for is Kepler, not Kelper.
RE: Lesson plan error
Thanks very much for pointing this out - I've just corrected the materials now.Best wishesRob
Good lesson plan.
This material contains new infromation for students. My 6th grade students were very exciting answering the question "Will you be sad if you find out that we a re alone in the galaxy or happy if you find out that we share with other life forms?" One of the girls told me that she would like to travel to other planets with her family. They also show curiousity in Kepler telescope. The text is good. It will be better if the text was written with simple words at least for non native speakers.
This lesson is full of new facts
This lesson is full of new facts which are alluring and fascinating for me and my students.During the whole lesson the students were curious about what's going on other planets.Particularly they enjoyed Word cloud activity.This lesson also strengthen the student's vocabulary on the topic of astronomy.
Thanks
Good topic
me and my students liked this topic..and they learnt new information and new words..thnax for all..
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Link fixed
Hi Kapil,
Thanks for letting us know the link wasn't working - I've updated it, so the link should work fine now. Let me know if you have any problems.
Thanks,
Cath
Excellent Lesson Plan
Thank you! I will use this lesson with one of my teenage students. :)
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