To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Winner of the 2009 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Children’s Literature Award. Please try again. Mary Kay Carson is an award-winning children’s nonfiction author. Space Activity Book for Kids Ages 4-8: A Fun Kid Workbook Game For Learning, Solar System Coloring, Dot to Dot, Mazes, Word Search and More! It's a good quality book (no cheap paper). To see what your friends thought of this book, Exploring the Solar System: A History with 22 Activities, While I have indeed been enjoying Mary Kay Carson's, Exploring the Solar System by Mary Kay Carson is a non-fiction book because it contains facts about what we know about our solar system. In 1781, William Herschel came across an unusual shining object that didn’t look like a star. He never got into it. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Very interesting! —, "Well-written history of space exploration." Wasn't aware at the time that this would go along with projects they are doing in school. Exploring the Solar System: A History with 22 Activities (For Kids series), Paperback – Illustrated, February 1, 2008. He searched for days, even weeks to find new things in space. This book has been updated to include the recent discovery of Eris, which, along with Pluto, has been newly classified as a "dwarf planet" by … I recommend it for your collection. Some require a bit of prep, but a lot you can just do right away. 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This book is a great book for 4th grade students to study or learn about the solar sytem and the planets! Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. I forgot he had it until I saw it on the "review your amazon purchase" page. National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Space (National Geographic Little Kids First Big Books), Qurious Space | STEM Flash Card Game | Explore, Match, Quiz & Spin Through The Universe. From interviews with well-regarded scientists (including explanations of how they themselves became interested in studying space) to easy-to-execute activities to a very thorough timeline of space exploration, Carson has once again thought of everything for engaging our own little scientists. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Very good book!!! The book's 14 essays focus on the history of NASA and solar system exploration from the earliest days of the space agency. very cool a fun way to learn about space! Please try again. Then when he kept researching it came out to be a new planet in our solar system. We’d love your help. Carson respects children and seems to grasp well what they can be expected to understand - which is often more than what they are credited with. Welcome back. Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2011. She's very interested in Space. As a result, her text is thorough and frank and can easily be read to would-be astronauts as young as 4 or 5 years. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Something went wrong. Exploring the Solar System by Mary Kay Carson is a non-fiction book because it contains facts about what we know about our solar system. : The Universe as You've Never Seen It Before (Knowledge Encyclopedias), The Everything Kids' Astronomy Book: Blast into outer space with stellar facts, intergalactic trivia, and out-of-this-world puzzles. Herschel tracked the path of what might be a comet over nights. First attempt into space they sent a dog. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Being a nerd, I was sure my 6-y/o would love this, since he wanted "space stuff." Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2011. —. It has a lot of information from the past. Exploring the Solar System by Mary Kay Carson is a non-fiction book because it contains facts about what we know about our solar system. The photos and the experiments really enrich the text, and I appreciate that the projects are actually doable. My daughter is very smart and understands what she is reading (or what I help her read). We are using this book as a supplement to our homeschool science curriculum this year.