CC Week 21 Cycle 3

Science

Assignment: Make a book about astronauts

Resources we used:

• This month's Institute for Creation Research magazine featured a Christian astronaut.  A great read and great discussion starter.
• Draw * Write * Now  - step by step instructions on how to draw a rocket.
• AWANAS - in our T&T handbook, there were jokes about outer space as well as an excerpt about a Christian astronaut.
• Scripture - Psalm 8, Genesis 1
• Movie Apollo 13
• Magic School Bus episode about Space 
• Midnight on the Moon, by Mary Pope Osborne, from the Magic Tree House series
• YouTube videos from Apollo 11 landing on the moon
• Neil Armstrong: Young Flyer, by Montrew Dunham, from the Childhood of Famous Americans series

The result:  My daughter wrote out a Bible verse, drew a picture of a rocket, cut out pictures from the ICR magazine, wrote a few sentences with her own illustration of the astronauts, and drew a picture of the moon with a flag on it.

Other ideas that we have used in the past that relate to this week:

• Make a moon chart - we made a calendar and observed the moon for a month to see how it changes from day to day.
• The poem "The Moon" by Robert Louis Stevenson