Earth's Place in Space

by Haelle

Overview

Living on a world as vast as Earth, it can be easy to forget that our planet is just a tiny speck in a massive universe filled with planets, moons, stars, asteroids, comets, dark matter, and maybe even alien life! In this book, readers in grades 4-9 will learn about Earth’s place in the Milky Way and the larger universe, and how humans are learning about the endless frontier of space. This series features a variety of science topics aligned to NGSS standards. From mixing matter to the study of sound waves, each informative book includes a glossary, comprehension questions, and an activity for home or the classroom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781731616777
Publisher:	Rourke Educational Media
Publication date:	08/11/2019
Series:	Science Masters
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	48
Lexile:	980L (what's this?)
File size:	7 MB
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

Table of Contents

You Are Here 4

The Inner Planets 10

The Outer Planets 18

The Outer Reaches of the Solar System 24

Meet the Milky Way 30

Exploring Space 36

Activity 44

Glossary 46

Index 47

Text-Dependent Questions 47

Extension Activity 47

About the Author 48

Editorial Reviews

This series covers a variety of science topics such as matter, energy, and the weather. For example, Earth’s Place in Space teaches readers about the solar system, the Milky Way, space exploration, the Goldilocks Zone, meteor showers, black holes, and the Mars rovers. Chunks of text are accompanied by photos or diagrams, making the content easy to digest. Captions help to link the images to the main text, and the images themselves range from archival photos to the latest portrait of a black hole from the Event Horizon Telescope. Directions for a related activity are included in each book, along with another suggested extension activity and text-dependent questions in the back matter. Glossary terms appear in bold print, while other terms of interest are in italics. General “Before Reading” suggestions are the same throughout the series. VERDICT Good titles to update science collections and align with NGSS topics. - SLJ Fall 2019

From the Publisher

11/01/2019

Gr 5–9—This series covers a variety of science topics such as matter, energy, and the weather. For example, Earth's Place in Space teaches readers about the solar system, the Milky Way, space exploration, the Goldilocks Zone, meteor showers, black holes, and the Mars rovers. Chunks of text are accompanied by photos or diagrams, making the content easy to digest. Captions help to link the images to the main text, and the images themselves range from archival photos to the latest portrait of a black hole from the Event Horizon Telescope. Directions for a related activity are included in each book, along with another suggested extension activity and text-dependent questions in the back matter. Glossary terms appear in bold print, while other terms of interest are in italics. General "Before Reading" suggestions are the same throughout the series. VERDICT Good titles to update science collections and align with NGSS topics.

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