Nonfiction Monday: Space Day
Get ready for Space Day on Friday with this fiction/nonfiction book pair and activities for Grades 6-8.
Facts First
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
by Tanya Lee Stone (Author)
Reading level: Grades 6-8
Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Even though the Mercury 13 women did not make it into space, they inspired the women who came after them to take their place in the sky.
First In Space
by James Vining
Reading level: Grades 6-8
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Oni Press
This historical graphic tells the story of Ham, a chimpanzee that NASA trained for the first sub-orbital spaceflight.
Activities...
Read the collection of poems about the 13 women in Almost Astronauts when the "flying bug" bit.
Preview the first 10 pages of First In Space.
Use primary sources with NASA's Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions.
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I think the story of Ham, the chimpanzee, is very inspiring. How was the book illiustrated and how much does it cost??
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