This requires a free plug-in, Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can find out if you need it by clicking on the PDF link. Overview of the Lesson Students are introduced to the idea of using simulation to explore and express the probability of an event occurring. Using an inflatable globe of the earth, students simulate where a UFO would impact with the surface of the Earth. Students are encouraged to make predictions based on prior knowledge of the earth's geographical features.
Students toss the globe one hundred times and catch it with open hands.
Students then use the data that they have collected to evaluate and make predictions on where a UFO will impact the earth. This lesson can easily be integrated with a language arts unit on mysteries. Have students read Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the UFO by David Adler. Begin the lesson with a short review of the book and a brief discussion of UFO's. Explain to the class that many UFO's that people report are merely space junk or meteorites that have fallen in the Earth's atmosphere.