
Up Up and Away in Our Beautiful Machine or Fly Me to the Moon
An integrated, interdisciplinary thematic study of the solar system for second grade. This unit is important because students need to know that they are a part of universal system. This unit will expose students to the general structure of the solar system and the objects in the Universe, knowledge of the Universe, and space exploration. It also helps us understand the seasons, the concepts of day and night, and how space exploration can influence our life.