Based on current brain research, this ready-to-use lesson engages third graders using the It Takes Two strategy. Encourage students with strategies designed to activate class participation and foster student achievement related to stars and planets.

Do you struggle with creating engaging lessons for third grade students? If so, Brain-Powered Lessons to Engage All Learners is your answer. This resource provides fun, appealing, and rigorous lessons based on brain-powered strategies. The eight strategies included in these lessons are designed around how the brain learns as a foundation. Students will look forward to using the strategies and learning new content--ultimately resulting in higher student success. Get ready to move your classroom to a whole new level of excitement and learning!

Benefit from current brain research in a practical, strategy-based approach which provides insight to how students learn most effectively. Brain based and engaging strategies are included that incorporate movement, kinesthetic learning, organization and graphic organizers, brainstorms and critical thinking, and writing. The included lessons are provided for grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-8 and are aligned with Bloom's Taxonomy. A Teacher Resource CD is also included containing reproducible teacher resource materials and student activity pages. 344 pages

Learn essential facts about stars and planets through interactive, engaging, educational activities, puzzles, and exercises. How old is the universe? How was the Earth formed? What lies beyond our solar system? Brain Booster: Stars & Planets covers all these questions and more. Filled with fascinating facts, detailed illustrations, and more than 100 write-in activities and puzzles, this is the perfect book to keep aspiring astronauts and astrophysicists-in-the-making busy, and to inspire children to truly engage with astronomy. Kids ages 8-12 will be occupied for hours as they pore over the information-packed pages and tackle the wide range of puzzles and activities--including mazes, code-breakers, matching games, anagrams, word searches, logic games, classification and identification games, quizzes, sudoku, odd-one-out, drawing, and coloring. Brain Booster is a new series of interactive, educational activity books combining accessible information with engaging activities and puzzles. Children learn through doing, with dozens of different activity types to fully engage with and explore a topic. Designed to support caregivers, teachers, and educators around the world, these books are ideal for supplementing your child's education at home.

Take an intergalactic adventure - from the neighbouring planets in the solar system to our galaxy and beyond. Discover more about planets, stars, comets, black holes, galaxies, astronomers and space travellers. And look to the future to see possible designs for interstellar spaceships and find out how humans may establish colonies on alien planets. Navigate your way through a fantastic range of subjects with this visually spectacular new series.

Gliese 581 is a red dwarf star some 20.3 light years from Earth. Red dwarfs are among the most numerous stars in the galaxy, and they sport diverse planetary systems. At magnitude 10, Gliese 581 is visible to amateur observers but does not stand out. So what makes this star so important? It is that professional observers have confirmed that it has at least four planets orbiting it, and in 2009, Planet d was described in the letters of The Astrophysical Journal as “the first confirmed exoplanet that could support Earth-like life.” Under a Crimson Sun looks at the nature of red dwarf systems such as Gliese as potential homes for life. Realistically, what are prospects for life on these distant worlds? Could life evolve and survive there? How do these planetary surfaces and geology evolve? How would life on a red dwarf planet differ from life on Earth? And what are the implications for finding further habitable worlds in our galaxy? Stevenson provides readers with insight into the habitability of planets and how this changes as time progresses and the central star evolves. Explore with him in this engaging, fascinating book the possibilities for finding life, from bacteria to more complex and even intelligent organisms, on red dwarf system planets.

Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Award for Science "A valuable perspective on the most important problem of our time." —Adam Becker, NPR Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity’s coming of age as we realize we might not be alone in this universe. Astrophysicist Adam Frank traces the question of alien life from the ancient Greeks to modern thinkers, and he demonstrates that recognizing the possibility of its existence might be the key to save us from climate change. With clarity and conviction, Light of the Stars asks the consequential question: What can the likely presence of life on other planets tell us about our own fate?