Here's a bit of what we've started with.
The Heavens:
Stars and Constellations
Book List:
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What is a star?, Chris Arvetis
Why do stars twinkle?, Isaac Asimov
The sky is full of stars, Franklyn Branley
The Magic School Bus sees a star, Nancy White
The sea mice and the stars, Kenneth C. Steven
The star grazers, Christine Barker Widman
Once upon a starry night: a book about constellations, Jacqueline Mitton
The Big Dipper, Franklyn Branley
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The Sun and Planets
(including comets meteors and ateroids)
Book List:
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Sun, Rau
Kingdom of the sun: a book of the planets, Jacqueline Mitton
The solar system, Dana Meachen Rau
The Earth and the Moon
The Moon
Book List
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Moon, Jacqueline Mitton
The moon, Rau
The moon seems to change, Branley
Eclipse: darkness in daytime, Branley
What makes day and night, Branley
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The Earth
(inside the earth, kinds of rocks)
Book List
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Earth, Rau
Planet Earth, Inside Out, Gibbons
Rocks and Minerals, Pellant
Rocks: hard, soft, smooth, and rough, Rosinsky
If you find a rock, Christian
Rocks & Minerals, Symes
Rocks, rocks, rocks!, Wallace
Let's Go Rock Collecting, Gans
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Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Book List
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Earthquakes, Branley
Earthquack!, Palatini
Danger! earthquakes, Simon
Volcanoes, Branley
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Star Cookies
Star Craft
We will be making these stars. Pictures to come!
Constellation Connect-the-Dots Pages
Also found here.
2 comments:
Sounds like lots of fun Shelly!! Good job!
i love all of your pictures, shelly! and thanks for the book ideas. we are going to do a unit on stars too very soon...i think there are supposed to be some meteor showers at the end of september, so mark your calender!
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