Share your exciting discoveries with your fellow space experts by creating a scientific poster.
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Deep Space Diary
Activity 5.2
Webb plays a key role in helping us learn about the atmospheres of planets - even those in other galaxies. By analysing data collected by Webb, scientists can discover which chemicals are present in a planet’s atmosphere. In this visual literacy activity, students interpret a series of pictograms representing gases, and then analyse atmospheric datasets to look for planets that might support life.
Support Materials
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Colour Blindness Awareness (196.67 KB pdf) ↓Links
- Animated clip which explains in simple terms how scientists study the atmospheres of exoplanets
This clip is included as the activity's Zap code. - Image showing how spectroscopy is used to study the atmospheres of Earth, Mars and Venus
- Exoplanets and how we locate them (written for young readers)
- Animated clip for children about how we search for exoplanets
- Animated clip about how space telescopes capture images and spectra, so we can study exoplanets
- This booklet contains nine practical activities about exoplanets, developed for KS2 (or equivalent) by ESERO-UK
- ‘Activity 1.1: Signs of Life’ from the Mars Diary is a good introductory for educators wishing to revise indicators of life on planets
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