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Literacy-focussed lessons using extracts from "The Book of the Moon" and beautiful illustrations to share with children at KS1 and KS2.
Websites to visit
Follow the Apollo 11 first Moon landing - from lift off to splash down!
Watch Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon and hear his famous words
See an astronaut's bootprint on the surface of the Moon
Join a friendly alien and find out what you'd need to live on the Moon
Websites to visit
Meet an astronomer who likes to look at the Moon and stars
Listen to Mr. Moon answer questions about himself
Looking at the Moon during the day - and at night
Click on the play button for day or night.
See the Moon's surface up close, with moonlight music
The music is called "Clair de Lune" or "Moonlight" by Claude Debussy.
Listen to a story about Galileo's telescope and what he saw
The first part of the clip is about the telescope. See page 18 of your book for more about the astronomer Galileo.
Take a trip into space to see how a lunar eclipse happens
Websites to visit
Listen to myths and stories about the Moon
Click on the play button below a story title.
See what the Moon will look like tonight
Click on "Show Phase" at the bottom of the Control Panel. To see all the phases for the current month, select "Continuous" and click the right arrow of the "Day" slider.
Play a game, visit the Moon and learn fun facts
Click on Sean to start the game.
How to make a paper rocket ship
Print out a Moon maze puzzle to solve
Click on link for "Printable maze PDF"
Find out how to make a Moon rock picture
For instructions click on the pdf link below the clip.
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The Usborne book of the moon
The Usborne book of the Moon
For thousands of years, the Moon has been the one thing in the night sky that everyone anywhere on our planet recognises. Trace the story of the Moon around the world and through history, from ancient legends about its creation, to its first sighting through a telescope, right up until the Apollo 11 mission and the first Moon landing in 1969.
“Beautifully illustrated... Straightforward and informative, and preserves the magic of the moon.”
Gardners, Children's Top Ten for June 2019
Laura studied literature at Cambridge and more literature at Trinity College Dublin. This means she’s read a lot of books, which helps when writing them. Before joining Usborne, she taught English in Barcelona for four years, as well as in Dublin and Cambridge. She now lives in East London with some plants and a lot of vintage clothes.
Brimming with fun and fascinating facts, questions and answers, myths and mysteries, and the exciting history of mankind’s race through space to land on the Moon, this is a wonderful introduction to our amazing, faraway Moon.
Lancashire Evening Post
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