Alien Earths

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 22.04.03

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Demographics
  3. Content
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Activity
  6. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  7. Resource for students
  8. Resource for Teachers
  9. Notes

Using Out of This World Knowledge to Build Literacy Skills! Space Writer on Board!

Elizabeth Isaac

Published September 2022

Tools for this Unit:

Resource for Teachers

Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd6nLM2QlWw  - Exploring Our Solar System: Planets and Space for Kids. –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RubnGwhcT6E  -The Milky Way for Children, Galaxies and Space: Astronomy for Kids – FreeSchool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncYOf29uc4  - What Is The Big Bang Theory? | The Dr. Binocs Show - Best Learning Videos For Kids | Peekaboo Kidz

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/loopy-legends/en/

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/all-about-exoplanets/en/

Books and Articles

Basu, S. Summer Intensive Session Talk, 2022

Maryboy, Nancy C., and David Begay. Sharing the skies: Navajo astronomy. Rio Nuevo Pub, 2010.

Frank, Adam. Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth. WW Norton & Company, 2018.

Fraknoi, Andrew, David Morrison, and Sidney Wolff. " Astronomy OPENSTAX Textbook and Resource Hub.". Rice University, 2018

Hasteen M. Klah. Navajo Creation Myth The Story of Emergence- the Dine Bahane’ Legend of the Navajo Native American Peoples

Johnson, John Asher. How do you find an exoplanet?. Vol. 5. Princeton University Press, 2015.

Lambourne, Robert J., M. J. Shallis, and Michael Shortland. Close encounters?: science and science fiction. CRC Press, 1990.

Paul G. Zolbord Dine Bahane’ The Navajo Creation Story

Rothery, David A., Iain Gilmour, and Mark A. Sephton, eds. An introduction to astrobiology. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Vick, Helen Hughes. Walker of time. Rowman & Littlefield, 1993.

William H. Lyon. Americans and Other Aliens in the Navajo Historical Imagination in the Nineteenth Century. Journal Article Vol.24. No 1 (Winter, 2000), pp. 142-161 (20 pages)

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