Last weekend we performed our group 4 project by taking all the first year students to a small island, svanøy, an hours boat ride away. We were hosted by the Norwegian deer centre which has it's headquarters there. The idea of the project was that groups of students would pretend to be visitors from another planet. Their mission being to collect data about the life they find close to their landing site. They have some scientific knowledge based on their own planet but knew nothing about the new place. They had several hours of observation time to collect as much data as possible, they then had to try to make sense of what they found which started by naming and classifying. At the end of the day each group made a poster which they displayed in a conference style setting. Many interesting scientific questions were raised concerning the way animals and plants are classified and why different things live in different places. There were also a lot of nature of science questions asked (even though its not on the syllabus yet we of course have been doing it for years), how can be be sure that the tide is cyclic when we have only observed it going up? How do we know the tide is due to the moon when we have not seen the moon? How do we know the physics on our planet applies in this new place? Can we be sure that the creature now known as Ashok Chemistralis (shown in the photo) lives on the beach spending half of his life knee deep in water with pH 7?