Audience
Educators, Students
Grade Levels
Grades K-4, Grades 5-8
Subject
Physical Science, Space Science, Forces and Motion, Gravity, Solar System and Planets, Universe, Astronomy, Asteroids Comets Meteorites
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
Welcome to a dynamic education program to build student skills in both science and language arts. This resource has an activity about Comets, Meteors and Meteoroids. To further explore the universe, check out the Web Quest to learn some amazing things related to the science of space: Gravity, Black Holes and Robots.
The accompanying poster contains easy-to-use, national standards-based lessons and reproducibles for the classroom. There are also inspiring images from the feature film “Zathura”, an adventure film based on a children’s book by renowned author/illustrator Chris Van Allsburg.
Adventure Is Waiting Activity [599K PDF file]
Accompanying Resource:
Space Science: Adventure Is Waiting Poster
Illustrations from “Zathura” by Chris Van Allsburg. Illustrations© 2002 by Chris Van Allsburg. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Space Science: Adventure Is Waiting was developed in cooperation with NASA, Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. and Houghton Mifflin Company.