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Lesson 1
Hands-on Balloon Expansion
The Story of the Big Bang
Rabbit Holes: Big Bang
Other Activities to Try
Literature Extension: Exploring Creation Myths
Music Extension: Percussion and Also sprach zarathustra
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Lesson 2
Play Dough Stars
The Story of Stars
Rabbit Holes: Star Formation
Play Based Activities
Star Myths Around the World
Van Gogh’s Cosmos
Sentence Types
ELA Activities: Star Formation
Lesson 3
My Cosmic Address
The Story of Our Galaxy and Solar System
Rabbit Holes: Our Galaxy
Play Based Activities: Galaxy
“The Planets” by Gustav Holst
Constellation Stories from Around the World
ELA Activities: Solar System
Lesson 4
Gravity Demonstration
The Story of Gravity
Rabbit Holes: Gravity
Gravity in a Bottle Activity
Gravity in Balance
ELA Activities: Gravity
Lesson 5
Rabbit Holes: Formation of Earth
The Story of Earth's Formation
Earth Creation Myths
Balloon-Print Art
Earth's Layers and Density
Crash Test Earth
Misty Copeland and the Firebird Suite
ELA: Earth's Formation
Lesson 6
Rabbit Holes: Story of Rocks
The Story of Rocks
Rock Cycle Art Project: "Paint the Cycle"
Rock Sorting Lesson: How Do We Tell Rocks Apart?
Sediment Jar
Erosion Demo: How Wind and Water Change Earth
Fossil Layers and Sedimentary Rock Demonstration (Bread + Gummy Candy!)
Volcano/Mountain Myths
ELA Activities: Rock Cycle
Lesson 7
Rabbit Holes: Plate Tectonics
The Story of Plate Tectonics
Alma Thomas–Style Plate Tectonics Art Project
The Great Wave and Tectonic Tsunamis
Scientist Spotlight: Marie Tharp
Earthquake Engineering: Shake It Up with Jell-O
What Is a Volcano?
Turtle Myths and Shifting Earth
ELA Activities: Plate Tectonics
Lesson 8
Rabbit Holes: Liquid Water
The Story of Water and Atmosphere
Water Myths and Flood Stories
Discussion Questions: We Are Water Protectors
Maya Lin and Wave Formations
The Goldilocks Zone: Why Earth Is Just Right for Life
The Amazing Atmosphere – Earth’s Protective Blanket
Ocean Slime & the Water Cycle
ELA Activities: Liquid Water
Lesson 9
Rabbit Holes: Definition of Life
The Story about What is Life?
Exploring Life Through The Carnival of the Animals
Moral & Ethical Discussion: What Counts as Life?
Living vs. Nonliving Collage
ELA Activities: Defining Life
Lesson 10
Rabbit Holes: First Life
The Story of the First Life
Spotlight on Hilma af Klint
Ancestor Stories
A Billion Tiny Things
Microbe Size Comparison
ELA Activities: First Life
Lesson 11
Rabbit Holes: Oxygen
The Story of Oxygen
Spotlight on Kara Walker
Wings of Air
Build a Model of Photosynthesis
Fossil Hotspot: Shark Bay, Western Australia
Synechococcus (still alive today!)
ELA Activities: Oxygen
Lesson 12
Rabbit Holes: Eukaryotes
The Story of Eukaryotes
How Do Soft Things Fossilize?
Trickster Tales
Artist Spotlight: Howardena Pindell
ELA Activities: Eukaryotes
Lesson 13
Rabbit Holes
Dot Stories of Early Life
Rabbit Holes: Multicellular Life
Monsters & Multicellular Life
Cnidarian Ancestors
The Story of Multicellular Life
ELA Activities: Multicellular
Lesson 14
Rabbit Holes
The Story of the Cambrian Explosion
Rabbit Holes: Cambrian
Myths of the Sea
Echoes of the Deep:
Body Sort: Who Gets to Be a Fossil?
Anomalocaris
Fossil Hotspot
ELA Activities: Cambrian
Lesson 15
