A dice game for the classroom

Educational level: From Primary to Secondary School 

Cost: Low

Time: 1-2 hours 

Brief Description 

A simple activity where students are introduced to diferent space careers by playing a dice game, after which they have to write a text or a theatrical play about the theme.

Goals

• To introduce students to space related careers.
• To identify students’ interests and hopes for the future.
• To promote space careers as a motivation for learning and studying STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) at school.
• To explore and to research about possible future space careers and space missions. 

• To investigate space science topics and phenomena which relate to space careers.

Learning objectives 

Students will be able:

• To identify and explore skills that are important in the pursuit of a career related to space;
• To identify current and future space careers, and their importance to humankind;
• To image future space missions within our Solar System.

Evaluation 

• Ask the student to identify some space careers.
• Assess the originality of the text or theatrical play describing the space mission to a body of our Solar System imagined by the student, checking if the required skills and importance of the job to humankind were indicated.