Play a dice-rolling game, inventing lifeforms, to stimulate the creation of extraterrestrial lifeforms. Students draw and describe their extraterrestrial creature showing its characteristics as a living thing. The Search for Life on Venus and Mars. Students list the characteristics of living things. Accept a specific role in a team situation 4.
Students collect clippings and Internet articles on new planets and related information.
Using this information students summarise and predict possible lifeforms that may be found in the solar system. Students justify their selections of planets and moons that may have life or could sustain life. Identify the gases in the atmospheres of the planets and relate them to the gases necessary for life as we know it. Construct a detailed table of planets and moons that may support life. Remove and plate the soil looking for microbes that survived the similar conditions found on Mars.