Book Title: "If You Decide To Go To The Moon"
Author: Faith McNulty
Illustrator: Steven Kellogg
Publisher: Scholastic Press, Copyright 2005
Number of pages: 48
Genre: Science Fiction
This unforgettable story takes its readers through every step of the journey to travel to the moon. It escorts you through the process of packing, liftoff, landing, and of course how to get home. Readers will learn all about the moon and even get to "land" at the Sea of Tranquility, the site of the first lunar landing.The illustrations in this story are mind blowing. Kellogg goes into great detail with his pictures of the moon, outer space, the rocket, and everything else that embodies a trip to the moon.
Grade Level: 1st grade
Subject Area: Science (Earth's Place in the Universe)
Standard: 8) Observe, describe, and predict patterns of the sun, moon, and stars as they appear in the sky (e.g., sun and moon appearing to rise in one part of the sky, move across the sky, and set; stars other than our sun being visible at night, but not during the day).
I would use this book as an introduction into an "Earth's Place in the Universe" unit. As a class, we could take a trip to the moon and use the book to help take us there. From there, we could dive into the other topics mentioned in this standard such as patterns we see in the sun and stars, how they move across the sky, and why we can see other stars at night but not during the day. This unit could very easily take a couple of weeks to complete.
I love how you will use the book in science. It is a great way to tie two subjects together and give the students some schema.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a wonderful book! It would be great for science and austronomy and would even make a great retelling lesson to have students retell the steps it took to get to the moon. I will definitely have to check this out.
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