Year 5- Homework

Topic- Is there anyone out there?

Each week choose a piece of homework from a new box

Thinking skill / Task
Remember
Factual answers, recall and recognition /
  • Create a timeline to show the history of space travel.
  • Create a new mnemonic that will help others in the class remember the names of the planets and their order from the sun.
  • Produce a fact file on a famous astronaut/cosmonaut.

Understood
Translating
Interpreting
Showing
understand /
  • Find out facts about the space missions – What was the first reature sent into space? Who was the first astronaut? Who was the first man on the moon? What other interesting facts can you find?
  • Draw a detailed map of the Moon’s surface – find out the names of the seas and lakes, as well as the names of the craters. What is the dark side of the moon?
  • Make a fact sheet about asteroids. What do they look like? Are they dangerous?

Apply
Using different information gained in different situations /
  • Write a diary as Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin after they had landed on the moon.
  • Keep a sky at night journal for a whole week. Write about everything you can see in the sky. You could draw a picture of the moon every night. Does it change over the course of the week?
  • Imagine you have been chosen to go on a space mission. Draw 8 useful things you would take with you and explain why you should be allowed to take them in a sentence below each picture.

Analyse
Break into parts to examine more closely /
  • Write a biography ofValentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space.
  • Choose two planets and compare them.
  • Compare the different types of stars.

Create
Combine information to create new products and ideas /
  • Make a 3D model rocket with a parachute to aid re-entry.
  • Use scrap paper, foil, sweet wrappers etc to create your own space collage.
  • Make a space mobile you could hang in the classroom.
  • Make an acrostic for one of the planets.

Evaluate
Judge, use criteria, rank substantiate. /
  • Create an advertisement to entice people to travel to outer space highlighting the things they would see.
  • Become a news reporter and write a report about the first moon landing.
  • What five questions would you like to ask an astronaut?