Draw Your Own Encyclopaedia Space Exploration - Classroom Edition

by Colin M. Drysdale

This book is part of the Draw Your Own Encyclopaedia series of factual books for children aged six to twelve. It provides interesting introductions to a variety of different areas related to space exploration. This classroom edition is aimed at teachers and other educators (rather than at individual children, as is the case for the individual edition). It

Eleven double-page spreads which explore a range of topics about space exploration that can be photocopied to create handouts for use in the classroom or as homework assignments. Each one contains an introductory question, a paragraph that explores its topic, questions to test your students comprehension of the contents of this paragraph, quick facts to provide additional information, and space for the student to add their own illustration for this topic.

A blank Draw Your Own Encyclopaedia double-page spread which you can photocopy and hand out to your students to allow them to create their own custom encyclopaedia entry based on a topic related to space exploration of their (or your) choice.

Two handouts which you can use to introduce mathematics into your lessons about space exploration. The first allows your students to work out how much food they would need to grow to support a colony on Mars, while the second allows them to calculate how long it would take a spacecraft to reach each of the different planets in our solar system.

A sixteen-question pop quiz that you can use to test your students knowledge about space exploration. All the information needed to answer these questions is contained in this book.

Links to additional background information about space exploration which you can use to increase your own knowledge of this subject.

Links to free online content, such as videos, related to the topics covered in this book that you can show to your students.

Ideas for six interactive and fun additional classroom activities.

Thus, taken together, the contents of this book provide you with all the information you need to teach your class all about space exploration in a fun and interesting way that integrates factual knowledge, reading comprehension, maths skills and practical demonstrations.

This book is part of the Draw Your Own Encyclopaedia series. Each individual book in this series forms a subject-specific chapter of the overall encyclopaedia. They are designed to encourage children to think about the world around them, and to learn how to search for information on the internet and from books, while having a little bit of fun!

40 pages, Paperback

Published July 8, 2019

About the author

Colin M. Drysdale was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied Zoology as an undergraduate at Glasgow University and has a doctorate in whale biology from the University of Aberdeen (also in Scotland). As part of his work, he has travelled extensively, and has spent time sailing around the west coast of Scotland, Newfoundland, Labrador, the Bahamas and Florida. He has also spent time in St. Helena, Vancouver island and has travelled overland across Canada and from Hong Kong to Glasgow by train.

While he was written countless academic papers and six technical books under is real name, he chose to publish his debut novel, For Those In Peril On The Sea under a pen name to help keep some separation between his non-fiction and his fiction writing.

Much of the landscapes and locations referred to in For Those In Peril On The Sea are real places that the author has visited or spent time in, especially when working in the northern Bahamas, gathering data for his doctoral thesis.

July 2014 will see the publication of his second novel, The Outbreak, which is set in the same world as For Those In Peril On The Sea, but which follows a new cast of characters as they try to escape from a city as it is over-run by the newly mutated Haitian Rabies Virus. As with the first book in this series, there is a strong element of the sea and sailing culture, although this time of the author's native Scotland rather than the sub-tropical setting of For Those In Peril On The Sea.

A third book will be added the For Those In Peril series in summer 2015, which will see the characters in the first two books united as their story lines finally collide.

As well as well as writing novel, Colin M. Drysdale has also published an anthology of short zombie and post-apocalyptic stories, which is currently available in paperback and as a Kindle ebook called Zombies Can't Swim And Other Tales Of The Undead. This contains 23 short stories, ranging in length from flash fiction to full length short stories which have previously available through his blog.