Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. Each kit in the series includes a science information big book, a set of six small books, and an audiocassette. The book in this kit features a narrative in which two girls, Kate and Jessie, set off for a family vacation around the solar system. The postcards they send home tell relatives about their trip, including the acid rain on Venus, how the space bus navigated through the rocks of Saturn's rings, and the need for leg warmers on Neptune.
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The book is illustrated with futuristic graphics and actual photographs from space. As they read, students discuss their ideas and the teacher records their responses on chart paper. These lists will later be made into a graph or diagram by the students. The read along audiocassette contains a dramatized reading of the book. Additional activities help students develop their own questions to research, decide on a audience for their report, and present what they have learned either orally, in text, or as a poster.