If you’re in contact with a willing art teacher like the incredibly talented Mel Lucking, then this projects main event is easy.

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Our set up was simple. Mel and her Y8 students constructed a UCO (Unidentified Crashed Object) including rubble and crater and the Science teachers chucked a lot of “evidence” for Y7 to find. Ours included some rocks samples, particularly hematite, some crystals of sugar, table salt and copper sulphate and other assorted items. Those and a couple of beakers of compost and sand. Check out @londonnautical  and @critchleysci on Twitter for more photos.

We’d prepare a lot of sample collection sheets, some evidence bags that looked remarkably like Sainsbury’s freezer bags and a guide to sampling and analysis and we were pretty much good to go.

Alien blood is a particularly easy make, green paint plus a drop or two of glycerine and glitter did us just fine and Christina Pope was a particularly gifted footprint artist.

We threw a dodgy series circuit into our wreckage and got our talented Year Sevens to repair and improve it gaining Circuit badges along the way. Lucky things.