Earth
Reading and Materials List
Required Books
- You're Aboard Spaceship Earth by Patricia Lauber
- Everybody Needs a Rock by Byrd Baylor
Lesson 5
Materials
Common Materials
- crayons, colored pencils, or markers
- scissors
- tape or glue
- construction paper (kit)
- magnifying glass (kit)
- clay soil (kit)
- dirt (kit)
- large clear plastic cups (kit)
- potting soil (kit)
- rocks
- blank paper (kit)
- gravel (kit)
- spoon
- Spelling Journal (kit)
- 2-liter bottle
- pictures of Earth taken from space
- log/large stick* (2.3 - Option 1)
- lunch paper bag (kit)
- apple* (2.3 - Option 1)
- cotton ball (kit)* (2.3 - Option 1)
- slice of bread* (2.3 - Option 1)
- topsoil (kit)
- sand (kit)
- shoe with tread
- 9" x 13" baking pan
- beans (kit)
- coin, such as a silver dollar
- paper towel
- peanut butter chips* (5.5 - optional)
- pecans* (5.5 - optional)
- butter or margarine
- candy coated chocolate* (5.5 - optional)
- light brown sugar
- 4 sugar cubes
- baking powder
- crayons, colored pencils, and markers
- eggs
- flour
- yarn (kit)
- white chocolate chips* (5.5 - optional)
- semisweet chocolate chips
- plastic container with lid
- raisins
- vanilla
- small cup of water
- sugar
- toothpick (kit)
- small cork (kit)
- playdough (kit)* (6.8 - optional)
- salt
- fresh whole fish (Option 1)
- glue
- 9" x 13" pan
- blue food coloring (kit)
- legal-size paper (kit)
- piece of sponge (kit)
- paint (kit)
- paper clips (kit)
- measuring cup
- newspaper
- liquid detergent
- blender
- about four pounds of toys, Legos, or blocks
- large pan
- empty glass jar
- scale* (7.2 - optional)
- poster board* (7.8 - Option 1)
- rolling pin* (7.3 - optional)
- vegetable oil
- towel
- window screen
- materials will vary depending on your child's design for the exhibit
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 5
Lesson 6
Lesson 7
Final Project
* - denotes an optional material that may or may not be used