Space! Inquiry-Based, Hands-On, Interdisciplinary Unit Plan

Tired of seatwork? Want to engage your students using hands-on activities that will actually promote higher learning and skill practice?

This unit includes ten lesson plans complete with inquiry-based activities, diverse formative assessment tools, discussion prompts, and answer keys. These activities are meant to get students up and moving while exploring complex topics through inquiry.

This unit is interdisciplinary and explores space through the lens of math, language arts, visual arts, and science.

This unit covers curriculum skills including:

1. Opinion and creative writing

2. Probability

3. Research skills

4. Critical literature review

5. Justifying a scientific conclusion

6. Abstract art techniques

There are imperial and metric units versions included.

Rubrics, answer keys, peer feedback sheets, exit tickets, and more summative and formative assessment tools are included.