Age 7-9 The Red Planet: Cross Curriculum Overview

Material

• Explain how changes can create new materials, investigating how a rocket can escape Mars’s atmosphere (2-5 lessons)

Light & Sound

• Explain how light travels, investigating how to protect an alien species under attack (2-4 lessons)

• Explain how sound travels, investigating how an alien species defends itself (2-4 lessons)

Desk-top publishing software

• Copy, paste, order, rotate, re-size and place images for effect, creating a collage to remember your loved ones whilst in space (2-4 lessons)

Database software

• Create a database and different views, creating alien or planet top trumps (2-4 lessons)

Gymnastics

• Compose a gymnastic sequence based on a rocket take-off (2-4 lessons)

Dance

• Compose a choreographed dance motif inspired by space travel (2-4 lessons)

Fitness

• Sustain activity appropriate periods of time, looking at astronaut’s preparation for space (2-4 lessons)

Christianity

• Investigate prayer in different religions, creating a prayer to say thank you before boarding a space shuttle (2 lessons)
• Explain what Jesus taught about prayer, re-writing the Lord’s prayer in a modern format for travel in space (2 lessons)

Feelings

• Recognise and take steps to control our feelings, noting strategies that astronauts would use in space (4 lessons)

Collage

• Create art inspired by space, investigating Matisse and using principles to create a space collage (4 lessons)

Composition

• Compose a song to reflect an alien invasion (2-4 lessons)

Co-ordinates

• Identify the location of features on Mars (2 lessons)

Time Line

• Order significant events in space travel (2 lessons)

Holidays

• Oral, reading and writing activities in preparation to write a postcard home from Mars (4 lessons)