Summary
“Should We Go to Mars?” is a short SciShow Kids science video for the K–5 classroom. It looks at space and the patterns we can spot in the night sky. Quick to drop into a science lesson, a center, or a few spare minutes before the bell.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
This video explores objects in space and the patterns we can see in the sky.
- What object in space does this video explain?
- What pattern could you look for in the real sky to see this for yourself?
- How is this object different from the Earth we live on?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: space, orbit, star, planet, pattern.
Try it: On a clear night, draw what you see in the sky and label anything you recognize.