This reading comprehension activity, ‘Back to the Moon!’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about rocket scientists researching the Moon.
This profile, ‘Col. Chris Hadfield’, features important factual background information about the famous Canadian astronaut. It is aimed at broadening students’ historical and cultural awareness in an engaging manner, and could be used a prompt for further discussion or study about Canada.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Get Set for Space’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about going into space.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘John Glenn’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about John Glenn, a man who travelled around the Earth in a spacecraft.
This profile, ‘Roberta Bondar’, features important factual background information about the first Canadian woman to go to space. It is aimed at broadening students’ historical and cultural awareness in an engaging manner, and could be used a prompt for further discussion or study about Canada.
This hands-on activity, ‘Robot Arm Project’ asks students to build Leonardo da Vinci’s robot arm and explore its relation to movement and physics.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Sally Ride’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Should We Send People to Mars?’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, tone, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This kids news activity, ‘Want To Be An Astronaut? A New Post Just Opened Up’ reports on the retirement of well-known Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
This fun and engaging worksheet, ‘Sydney Crosby or Col. Chris Hadfield’, uses the popular Would You Rather game as a writing prompt for students to consider which of these two iconic Canadian celebrities they would rather be and why. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of the symbols and icons associated with Canadian culture …More
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Yuri Gagarin’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
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