Astronomy Unit Resource List

General Information:

The Kingfisher Young People's Book of Space (Martin Redfern)
National Geographic Planets, Stars and Galaxies (David Aguilar)
The Encyclopedia of Awesome Space

Books By Seymour Simon:

Galaxies
Stars
Comets, Meteors and Asteroids
Our Solar System
Jupiter
Saturn
Neptune
Venus
Destination: Mars
The Moon
Earth: Our Planet in Space
The Long Journey From Space

Readers/NF Story Books

Journey into a Black Hole (Let's Read and Find Out About Science Book)
Starry Messanger (Peter Sis)
The Comet and You (EC Krupp)
Godspeed, John Glenn (Richard Hilliard)
One small step : celebrating the first men on the moon (Jerry Stone)
Moon landing : Apollo 11 40th anniversary pop-up (Richard Platt)
Moonshot : the flight of Apollo 11 (Brian Floca)


Websites:

NASA Space Place
NASA Education: For Educators
Journey to a Black Hole
Earth Science Lesson Plan (list of links)

Government Unit Resources

Here's a list of the resources we used while completing our US Government Lapbooks...

Books:

We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States
Shh! We're Writing the Constitution
My Senator and Me
Yo, Millard Filmore
Lives of the Presidents: Fame and Shame
What President's are Made of
George Washington (by Marian Leighton)
Who Was Thomas Jefferson
Presidents of the United States (Level 3 Reader)
Lyndon B. Johnson: Young Texan
How the US Government Works
Making a Law ( A True book)
The Supreme Court (A True Book)

Websites:

Informational:

Teaching the Constitution

Understanding Taxes

How a Bill Becomes a Law

Congress For Kids

Ben's Guide to the US Government for Kids

US Mint

Printables:

Barack Obama Presidential Notebooking pages

Presidents Coloring Book

What's Great About America- lesson plans and materials

Constitution Coloring Book

Bill of Rights

Games:

Branches of Power

Texas Law Focused Education

Name that President

Thinkquest- Presidents

**The ones we used for multiple topics were Ben's Guide and Congress for Kids**

And I should probably mention the website I used more than any: Google Image Search. It's a wonderful resource if you make your own lapbook templates and want more than cartoon-like clip art.