I’d Have Been All Over This
School children in the UK were greeted with an amazing sight on a recent morning: a crashed UFO.
On arriving for classes, the Kingsway primary school students were greeted by a debris field on the playground (one supposes nothing sharp or radioactive) and personally greeted by the alien occupants in their classrooms.
As a child (and even now), I would have been enthralled by this day of learning.
The event was put together in order to encourage creative writing and imaginative thinking within the school.
The pupils will now write their experiences from the day for a school newspaper to be published and distributed throughout the local community.
By partnering with a local acting high school – and giving its students a role as the extraterrestrial visitors – the activity generated a creative opportunity for both actors and writers that they will not soon forget. It was also a truly interactive learning experience that reminds me of the simulated space mission I got to be a part of as a Penn State junior.