Out of This World Learning! Activities, Apps & Resources for Aliens & Planets
1. Out of This World Learning!
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Ghost Riders by RubyBlossom, Flickr
Activities and Resources About Aliens and Planets
2. Boy starring at a rotating globe by Spreng Ben, Flickr
Are there things about the universe that will
be forever beyond our grasp, but not beyond
the grasp of some superior intelligence?
~ Richard Dawkins
4. Can you name these famous aliens?
by jbhalper
by Hey Paul
by Elliott Brown
by Mykl Roventine
by JD Hancock
All images from Flickr Creative Commons
by Dystopos
6. Activity: Explore my Planet
• tudents create planets
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in a shoebox
• tudents switch
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shoeboxes with a partner
• he partner takes
T
samples of the newly
discovered planet, writes
down observations in a
chart and labels
Lucy Ocean Diorama by Steve Polyak, Flickr
8. Activity: Create an alien planet
• ids use playdoh or clay
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• hey describe or write
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about the planet
My PlayDoh Creation! An Owl by Mikenan1, Flickr
11. Activity: Create an Ad to Sell Your UFO
• how students a few
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auto commercials
• tudents then create
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their own commercial to
sell their newly designed
UFO
http://adsoftheworld.com/
12. Activity: Alien
Abduction
• re-task- students come up
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with questions to ask a
person who was abducted
by aliens
• tudents watch a video
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about the Allgush Abduction
& read the case study, http://
www.ufocasebook.com/vid/
vid1.html
• tudents recreate the
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interview using Go Animate,
answering their own
questions based on the
reading
War of the Worlds by Steve Jurvetson, Flickr
26. The Digits Fraction Blast IOS/Android
• he
Digits
is
the
greatest
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unknown
rock
band
in
the
galaxy.
Learn
frac:ons
through
live
ac:on
video
&
games
• avi,
Gorgolax,
&
Ray
Ray
fight
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the
evil
Marvwell
Doomfinger
III
who
wants
to
use
music
to
make
the
galaxy
stupider.
• et
achievements
drawn
by
G
comic
book
ar:sts
Watchthedigits.com
27. Symphony of Science
• outube.com/user/
Y
melodysheep
• heck for transcripts
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& closed captions
• lip the class- add
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to a wiki, website or
blog
30. Game Press Free for iPad
-drag & drop
- over 500 graphics,
music, sound effects,
particle effects
-import your own
pictures, graphics,
animations, sound
effects, music
- create sound &
special effects
- physics engine for real
world simulation