Product Overview
This monthly handbook contains the following features:
- 6 activities: two each in reading, writing, and math
- A note about the theme and the skills it builds
- Picture book suggestions
- Skill-specific information for the teaching adult
- A planning box for each activity
- Note pages for planning and reflection
About the Books
Where is Our Solar System?
Readers will want to grab a telescope and explore the night skies after finishing this overview of our solar system.Our solar system consists of eight planets, as well as numerous moons, comets, asteroids, and meteoroids. For thousands of years, humans believed that Earth was at the center of the Universe, but all of that changed in the 17th...
Far-Out Guide to Mars
Earth's neighbor Mars likely once had an environment that could have supported life. Now it has underground frozen water in many places. Spacecraft from Earth have visited Mars and taught us a lot about this dusty red planet. Featuring a center spread with fast facts, this book tells readers about the missions, the scientists who plan them, and...
Far-Out Guide to the Moon
Earth has many satellites, but the Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. Spacecraft and astronauts have visited the Moon to learn more about it. From the Apollo missions to the most current robotic spacecraft, this book highlights our adventures in studying our neighbor in space.
Far-Out Guide to Mercury
Cratered Mercury is the smallest and fastest planet in the solar system. Temperatures there vary more than on any other planet. Learn lots of far-out facts about the closest planet to the Sun. This book features a center spread with fast facts, perfect for report writing.
Our Universe Book Set
Set of 5 paperback books in the Our Universe series by Stacy McAnulty Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years Prepare to learn all about Earth from the point-of-view of Earth herself! In this funny yet informative book, filled to the brim with kid-friendly facts, readers will discover key moments in Earth’s life, from her childhood more than four...
Wonders of the Night Sky: Astronomy Starts with Just Looking Up
Astronomy starts with just looking up in this luminously illustrated nonfiction middle grade guide to the spectacular treasures of the night sky from an award-winning physicist and astronomer.For millennia, curious people have looked to the sky and wanted to understand the wonders that appeared. Readers can connect to the many parts of our...
What We See in the Stars: An Illustrated Tour of the Night Sky
A richly illustrated guide to the myths, histories, and science of the celestial bodies of our solar system, with stories and information about constellations, planets, comets, the northern lights, and more.Combining art, mythology, and science, What We See in the Stars gives readers a tour of the night sky through more than 100 magical pieces...
True or False: Planets
Fun, photographic nonfiction at its best, from the authors of the successful Question and Answer series. Scholastic True or False is a science series in a fun question-and-answer format aimed at 2nd and 3rd graders. Each book contains 22 true or false questions with a full-color photograph on every page. Kids will read the question on the right...
The Space Adventurer’s Guide
It's not just astronauts who get to travel into space anymore. Forward-thinking entrepreneurs have now made space flight a reality for adventure-seekers of all kinds. And just in time, here's a travel guide for kids to plan their own out-of-this-world journeys. Eight potential space vacations are described, one per chapter, complete with...
Scholastic Discover More: Planets
Scholastic Discover More is a revolutionary new nonfiction line pairing stunning print books with corresponding interactive digital books that extend the learning online.PLANETS unlocks a free 48-page digital companion book, AMAZING SPACE MACHINES, offering even more information, photos, and videos!All children want to learn their place in the...
National Geographic Space Encyclopedia
Presenting the latest exciting findings on space exploration and research and cutting-edge, spectacular views of the universe that technology is bringing back to Earth, all in one ultimate reference book. Authored by David A. Aguilar of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the National Geographic Space Encyclopedia is ideal for the...
Mission to Pluto
In July of 2015, a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-half-year journey. New Horizons is the first spacecraft mission to Pluto and revealed its five moons as never before seen. Images from the mission show a reddish surface covered in ice-water mountains, moving glaciers, and hints of possible ice volcanoes and an underground...
Mousetronaut Goes to Mars
Meteor the mousetronaut returns to outer space in this exciting story from #1 New York Times bestselling author and retired NASA astronaut Commander Mark Kelly and renowned illustrator C.F. Payne.3-2-1…blast off! The smallest member of the team, a mouse named Meteor, is back on board and ready to come to the rescue on an interplanetary...
Dr. Maggie’s Grand Tour of the Solar System
This mind-blowing book invites readers to join BBC presenter and renowned space scientist Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock (MBE) on an epic journey through the Solar System – visiting planets, moons, asteroids, and satellites, and traveling to places where no human has been before.Along the way, kids can discover how we could live on Mars, learn about...
DK Smithsonian Super Space Encyclopedia
Explore our wonderful universe through stunning CGI illustrations and amazing stats that bring to life the incredible marvels that populate space.Bursting with fascinating facts and the latest breathtaking images, this space book for children brings the wonders of the Solar System to life. Find out about the never-ending storms on Jupiter. Learn...
Destination: Space: Living on Other Planets
Will humans ever be able to live on other planets? Former NASA astronaut Dr. Dave Williams is the person to ask. It turns out that Earth is a pretty good place to live. Finding other habitable environments in space is no easy task: temperatures on Mercury are ten times hotter than on Earth; winter on Neptune lasts about forty years, and Uranus...
Cinderstella: A Tale of Planets Not Princes
Cinderstella has plans for her own happily ever after. A future princess she is not. Her calculations and equations are simple enough, she'd rather be an astronaut!Read along in this modern retelling of a beloved fairy tale, as Cinderstella challenges what is expected of her to pursue her true passion and find a universe of opportunity in...
Bok’s Giant Leap
First man on the moon Neil Armstrong's only children's book is a unique exploration of how the Earth and the Moon came to be.The entire epic history of the Earth and the Moon is recounted through the observations of one special moon rock named Bok. Geologists say that rocks remember, and Bok certainly does. It recounts how its life began on...
