Grade Range: K-4Resource Type(s): Lessons & ActivitiesDuration: 30 MinutesDate Posted: 11/4/2009
Maria's Comet is a work of children's literature about a young girl who longs to study the stars. Included in an OurStory module entitled Exploring the Sky, this activity includes strategies that will help adults and children actively read Maria's Comet together. OurStory is a series of modules designed by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to help children and adults enjoy exploring history together through the use of children's literature, everyday objects, and hands-on activities.
Discussions, Multiple activities, Museum education
This "Solar System" quilt was made by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, in 1876. The woo...
picture book, reading, 1800, OurStory, Our Story, march, Women's History Month, science, biography, parent guide, History, Women, family activity, 19th Century, nineteenth century, family, Women's History, woman, children’s literature, literacy
Loosely based upon the childhood of Maria Mitchell, America's first woman astronomer, here is sto...
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