Space Unit

Books

• The Magic School Bus and The Solar System
• Mooncake
• EarthDance
• The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth
• Moonstruck

Poems/Songs

• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
• Starlight, Starbright
• Hey Diddle, Diddle
• One Light, One Sun
• He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
• This Little Light Of Mine

Activites

2. We do a graph about whether we like Milky Way or Mars Bars better.

3. We eat moonpies when we talk about the moon.

4. Using children as models we talk about the Earth orbiting around the moon.

5. We make the Big Dipper

Here is a sun made from handprints.

The students colored the earth and then wrote a sentence about it.

The students made comets out of paper plates, ribbon, and stickers.

Here is a rocket we made.

Here are moon cookies, which are sugar or peanutbutter cookies with thumbprint craters.

The students put a rocket pattern on a bag and then took a balloon, blew it up, and then let it go to see the rocket shoot up.

Here are some of the Solar System Projects the students worked on at home:

Here is the class taking a moon walk in their space outfits. They are made from milk jugs and white trash bags.

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