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Week 8: Space Week

Week 8: Space Week

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This is week eight of our MLC Summer of Fun program!

Explore outer space with videos from NASA Astronauts and see what it takes to start a career in space exploration.

Download The Activity Book

Don’t have a printer? No problem! Visit one of our local events to see where you can get free copies from our Engagement Coordinators.

Early Learners

Download the Early Learners Summer Activity Book for Preschool – Kindergarten Learners.

Lower Elementary

Download the Lower Elementary Summer Activity Book for 1st Grade – 3rd Grade Learners.

Upper Elementary

Download the Upper Elementary Summer Activity Book for 4th Grade – 5th Grade Learners.

Bonus Activities

For more summer exploration, try these bonus activities curated for Space Week.

Ready, Jet, Go! Games Collection

Build rocket ships, find constellations, and more with Ready, Jet, Go!

Make Bite-Sized Planet Pops

Explore the different planets in our solar system while baking bite-sized replicas.

Create a Moon Rock Painting

Recreate the texture of the lunar surface and then use it to paint a paper moon.

Lessons in this Week’s Activity Book

All Space Week Lessons

Lesson 508
Paper Airplane Science
Science
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
It’s a bird! It’s a paper airplane! It’s science! The Curious Crew explores the aerodynamics behind different kinds of paper airplanes including boomerangs, gliders, darts, and nose-divers. STEM Challenge: Design a Paper Plane Launch System. Curious About Careers: Airline Pilot Emily Coaker
$Math Mights - 3rd Grade$
Lesson 404
Collect Data on a Line Plot
Math
3rd Grade
Join Ms. Askew for a fun Fraction Number Talk Sort. We'll have fun collecting data and creating our own line plot to represent our data.
$Math Mights - 3rd Grade$
Lesson 403
Interpret Line Plots
Math
3rd Grade
Join Ms. Askew for a fun Fraction Number Talk Sort. We'll also make sense of line plots with lengths in halves and quarter inches.
$Math Mights - 1st Grade$
Lesson 404
Build New Shapes
Math
1st Grade
Join Mrs. Markavich for a number talk with D.C. as we work on decomposing and composing to make 10. We'll build a new shape from smaller shapes.
$Math Mights - 1st Grade$
Lesson 403
Triangles, Rectangles and Squares
Math
1st Grade
Join Mrs. Markavich for a number talk with D.C. as we work on decomposing and composing to make a 10. We'll also explore what makes a shape a triangle, a rectangle, or a square.
$Math Mights - Kindergarten$
Lesson 404
Write Equations for Numbers 11-19
Math
Kindergarten
Join Mrs. Gray for a Numeracy Talk with Dotson seeing the double ten frame but building what we saw using a Rekenrek. We work with numbers 11-19 and write equations.