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Space pack: sky sheets and space quizzes

Five one-page space sheets and ten read-aloud space quizzes, free for any classroom from K to 8th grade. Everything opens on peabody.kids with no sign-in; nothing a student taps is sent anywhere.

Five print sheets

  • Tonight's sky sheet: A Moon to colour as you see it, a compass with tonight's planets, three ticks and a line for what you saw.
  • The Moon journal: Thirty blank Moons, one a night: colour the part you see and write the date.
  • The shower night kit: A box for every ten minutes of a meteor shower, the brightest one, and the clouds.
  • Star pattern cards: Six cards to cut out: the Big Dipper, Orion, Cassiopeia, the Summer Triangle, Leo and the Pleiades, drawn from the stars' real positions.
  • The planets in order: The eight planets in a strip, numbered, with each one's distance from the Sun.

Ten quizzes

  • 🪐 Planets in order: teaches the eight planets in order. Ten questions, three answer boxes each, read aloud; the answers and why are printed under every quiz.
  • 📏 Which is bigger?: teaches how big the worlds are. Ten questions, three answer boxes each, read aloud; the answers and why are printed under every quiz.
  • 🌡️ Hot or cold?: teaches temperature across the solar system. Ten questions, three answer boxes each, read aloud; the answers and why are printed under every quiz.
  • 🌙 Moon shapes: teaches the eight Moon phases. Ten questions, three answer boxes each, read aloud; the answers and why are printed under every quiz.
  • 🌓 Growing or shrinking?: teaches waxing and waning. Ten questions, three answer boxes each, read aloud; the answers and why are printed under every quiz.
  • 🔭 Read the sky card: teaches reading a sky card. Ten questions, three answer boxes each, read aloud; the answers and why are printed under every quiz.
  • ☄️ Shooting star months: teaches which shower is which month. Ten questions, three answer boxes each, read aloud; the answers and why are printed under every quiz.
  • 🌕 How many moons?: teaches moons by NASA's count. Ten questions, three answer boxes each, read aloud; the answers and why are printed under every quiz.
  • ⏳ Days and years: teaches days and years on other worlds. Ten questions, three answer boxes each, read aloud; the answers and why are printed under every quiz.
  • 🛟 Sky safety: teaches staying safe under the sky. Ten questions, three answer boxes each, read aloud; the answers and why are printed under every quiz.

For the class

  • Sky Tonight: send it home for one thing to find in the sky tonight; the ZIP stays on the family's phone.
  • The Moon calendar: fourteen months of drawn Moons, for a month-long Moon journal.
  • The eleven worlds: every planet, the Sun, the Moon and Pluto at three reading levels with NASA's numbers.

Quiz scores are not saved: a quiz is played on the student's screen and nothing is sent. The answers printed under each quiz make it easy to go over together.