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Week 5: Space
South San Francisco Public Library Week 5: Space
Page 1: Title Page 2: Table of Contents Page 3: Women in Space Page 4: Story Time from Space Page 5: NASA Activities Page 6-7: Writing About Space: Facts Page 8-11: Writing About Space: Fiction Page 12: Book Lists Page 13: Resources Page 14: Summer Learning Challenge Survey
Learn about astronauts, the International Space Station, planets, stars, galaxies, and more! Enjoy activities from NASA, writing prompts, reading lists and story times from space!
Don't forget to share your work with us! @ssflibrary Women in Space
Mae Jemison Christina Hammock Koch Jessica Meir Jeanette Epps Women in Space Database "Explore the historic heroines, the modern marvels working in the space industry today and the female engineers who help propel the astronauts into space."
Women in Space: A Gallery of Firsts "Humans have been flying in space since 1961, with the first women launching off planet Earth in 1963. Since then, women have gone on to set records for spacewalks and long-duration spaceflight on the International Space Station, with NASA aiming to land the first woman on the moon by 2024 under the Artemis program, named for the twin sister of Apollo."
Valentina Tereshkova Kalpana Chawla Sally Ride Ellen Ochoa Story Time from Space
https://storytimefromspace.com/library/
"Story Time from Space is a project of the Global Space Education Foundation, a nonprofit education foundation. We send children’s books to the International Space Station.While in space, astronauts are videotaping themselves reading these books to the children of Earth." NASA Activities
Space Place English: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/ Spanish: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/sp/
Pinwheel Galaxy
Galactic Mobile Gummy Greenhouse Gases
Make a Comet Oreo Moon Phases
Build a Space Craft More Activities!
Writing About Space: Five Facts Use the internet, library online resources, or request books from our nonficition list on page 12. Write five facts about a planet in our solar system.
Write five facts about different types of stars.
Write five facts about our galaxy. Draw Space Draw a picture of a planet, star, black hole, or galaxy. Writing About Space: Fiction
On your travels through space you meet an alien species. What are they like? Where are they from? How do you communicate?
Humans have colonized Mars! You and your family are moving there in one week. You find out you can only bring a backpack. What do you bring with you? How do you spend your last week on Earth?
Create a story based off one of the constellations.
You have engineered your own spaceship. Describe it. How does it work? Writing About Space: Fiction Writing About Space: Fiction Drawing Space Draw a picture to go with your fictional story. Book Lists
Picture Books About Space
Interplanetary Fiction for Kids
Nonfiction Books About Space
Science Fiction for Middle School Readers Learning Resources
Hubble Telescope https://hubblesite.org/
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum https://airandspace.si.edu/learn
ALMA for Kids https://kids.alma.cl/
StarDate, McDonald Observatory https://stardate.org/ Share your work with us! @ssflibrary
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