Astro Boy 11X17 2.Indd

Neptune Neptune is the Mercury coldest, windiest Mercury is very dry planet in our solar and hot. During the system. Brr! It has day, it can get much 13 moons to keep hotter than the it company. highest setting on Mars your oven at home! Mars is a dry, rocky planet. It is sometimes called the “Red Planet” because Venus it looks red. The red Venus is very hot, Earth Saturn color is from dust on just like Mercury. It is The Earth, our home, Saturn is a big the surface. the second brightest is the only planet planet surrounded Uranus celestial object in our in our solar system by beautiful rings Uranus is very cold night sky—only the Jupiter where life exists. made of ice and rock. and windy. Unlike Earth’s Moon is brighter. the Earth, it is made Jupiter is the biggest Unlike the rest of the It is often called the of gas, so there is no planet in our solar planets, Earth has air “Jewel of the Solar solid ground to land system. You wouldn’t we can breathe and System.” a spaceship on. want to visit Jupiter water we can drink. though, because it is a giant ball of poisonous gas.

Introduction • powerful • bottle caps Astro Boy possesses these superpowers: This program, inspired byAstro Boy, uses science, history • robot • paper plates 1. X-ray vision. and art projects to bring together lessons about our solar • rocket • plastic spoons and forks 2. The ability to fly using rocket boots. system, Earth, and how the students can make the planet • science • string 3. Arms that transform into cannons. and their community a better place to live. • technology • rubber bands 4. Ability to speak and hear “robot” language. • unique • soda cans 5. A blue core self-sustaining power source, stronger Activity sheets for each of the suggested • x-ray • water bottles than nuclear energy and infinitely cleaner. It’s pure lessons can be found online at Other materials needed: Scissors, crayons/colored pencils, positive energy. www.planetnewsandviews.com/teachers.html 4. What it Takes to be a Hero glue and tape. 6. Threat Analysis H.U.D.(Heads Up Display): Astro Teacher and students talk about heroes and how someone Boy can view and assess the danger level of a threat at Teacher demonstrates how children can build a robot from 1. Learn About Our Planets becomes a hero. Teachers can have pictures of heroes to great distances. these materials and shows a picture as an example. Sample Earth is just a small part of a larger solar system and has a refer to (i.e. Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, If you could have one superpower what would it be? photos are provided on the activity sheets online. special place within the universe. Use the poster to lead a Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Write down your one superpower. discussion on our solar system, discussing the eight planets Mandela, and Neil Armstrong, etc.) For example: Soup cans, paper towel tubes, plastic spoons Tell us why you picked it. and the Sun, and why Earth is the only planet that humans Materials needed: Paper and crayons/colored pencils and forks can be used for the arms and legs. A paper plate How would you help others with your special power? can live on. or cup can be used for the head. Students can also cut up Topics for Discussion: a. Discuss the characteristics of each planet with a cardboard carton for each part of the body. Hair can be How would you use your superpower to save the world? • What is a hero? students. (i.e. there is no atmosphere on other planets, made from rubber bands or string and eyes are represented • What positive qualities do heroes possess? Teachers may end the lesson with this message: humans need oxygen which can only be found on by bottle caps or buttons. • For example: Astro Boy is a hero because he is selfless. • Even though we may not have superpowers, we all Earth, the moon has no gravity, etc.) He thinks of others and always tries to do the right Teacher may supplement this activity still have great powers inside of us. We have the b. Hand out activity sheet with planets. thing. Astro Boy uses his powers to help other people by explaining the big picture: power to help others less fortunate than ourselves, to Materials: Pencil, crayons/colored pencils. and save Metro City. • It is important for us to find ways to reuse and recycle help people in need, and to make the world a better Have children color in the planets and write one word • Discuss national heroes. the items we use every day. Items such as the ones place for everyone. We all just need to take steps to under each planet that describes it (i.e. Saturn has • What has each hero done and how does it make them we used in our robots can be used again in school help our planet flourish, like Astro Boy does. rings, Mars is red.) a hero? projects, at home, and with your friends. By recycling 2. Build an Astro Boy Solar System Mobile • Children should discuss community or personal and reusing materials, we are helping to conserve heroes (i.e. policemen, firefighters, educators, our valuable resources and make a better world for The class will create mobiles that show the correct neighbors, family members.) everyone. placement of each planet in order by its distance from the • Students can discuss, “What makes them a hero to Sun. Teacher to discuss the following: me?” a. Where does pollution come from and what is it doing Materials needed: Scissors, string, coat hangers, and • “What do you do that makes you a hero?” to our planet? crayons/colored pencils. b. At home, students and family members pick out or draw a What are the benefits of recycling? a. Students color the elements on the activity sheets c. picture of their hero to discuss in class. What are alternative energy sources and why do we provided, including the planets, Sun, and Astro Boy. need to use them? b. The next day students show the picture and discuss in class Students cut out objects on sheets that will be used to d. What can each one of us do in our communities to why that person is a hero to them. make the mobile. “Go Green” and help save the planet? c. Students then write the name of each planet and character on the cut out elements. 5. Build Your Own “Go Green” Robot Back to School Night Integration: d. Teachers are encouraged to showcase this lesson and the Students tie Astro Boy character and planets with Teacher provides a list of recyclable materials. Children students’ robots at Back to School Night to show string and fasten them to the coat hangers. bring in whatever they can from home, supplemented by e. parents that their children are being educated Students can take their mobile home to share with teacher’s materials. Students build and decorate their own about the issues facing our planet today and in family. robot. Teacher should encourage students to be creative the future. 3. Astro Boy Vocabulary with any recyclable materials they can bring from home. 6. Superpowers: Class Discussion Students will match up definitions with words on the Sample List: activity sheets provided online. • paper towel and toilet paper rolls/tubes Special powers only become “super” when they are used to • action • cereal boxes help others. Astro Boy uses his powers to help Metro City. • adventure • paper bags Teachers lead the students in a discussion of how they can • flight • soup cans and cartons use their personal powers to help others.