Lesson 2 – Meet the Engineers (classroom version)

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If you have booked a computer room for this lesson, follow this link for a student-led lesson with more independent learning.

Students will be finding out about the teams of engineers in this lesson.

Lesson Resources

• List of the top five criteria chosen in Lesson 1: You’re the Judges!
• Printed copies of some of the engineers profiles – there are many engineers taking part in the ExoMars Rover Zone in different teams. You may wish to have a look before the lesson and print the profiles of the people you would like to focus on in your subject.
• Login stickers – hand out to students for them to access the site from home

Starter

If there have been any updates posted from teams about their missions, read through these as a class.

Class discussion (you could put the zone home page on the screen as a stimulus)

• What did the students find out in their homework?
• What do they think of the teams and engineers so far?
• Have any of your students’ questions been answered yet?
• Write a list of questions you could ask to find out more about the engineers – keep these for the next activity.

Main activity – speed dating!

1. Split students into groups – give each group a printed profile of one team member to read through together.
– What do they think about this person? What would they like to ask them on the site?

2. Split each group in half (As and Bs).
– As stay where they are as their team member.
– Bs move to another group to ‘interview’ a different person (they can use the questions formed in the starter for this).

3. Move students on after a few minutes so they can interview as many people as possible.

Plenary

Class discussion (you could put the zone home page on the screen as a stimulus)

• What do they think of the engineers they have “met” today?
• Write a list of questions to ASK engineers on the site.
• Brief students about the live chat lesson.

Suggested Homework

Students log on and read any updates that teams have posted about their mission progress.

ASK at least one question.