The Spaces You’ll Go Resources
Free Out-Of-This World Resources!
Thank you for using the drawing power of space to get your kids interested in STEM at a young age. I hope this book serves as a launchpad to inspire wonder about the universe we live in, yet are just beginning to understand. The resources on this page are free for you to download and use with your little big dreamers. If you have resources that you have created to use with The Spaces You’ll Go and would like to have them featured here, please email me at rachael@teachliketed.org.
Worksheets
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The Spaces You'll Go: KWC (Know, Wonder, Connect) Chart
KWC Chart: Know, Wonder, Connect!
The Spaces You'll Go: Writing Prompt
The Spaces You’ll Go Writing Prompt: Encourage kids to think and write as they dream big!
The Spaces You'll Go: KWL Chart
The Spaces You’ll Go Makerspace
Activities
The following activities can be done in teams, as a group, or individually.
Activity 1
Ask students to choose one of the 17 careers from the book and make an invention connected to that career.
Activity 2
Give students an opportunity to create a habitat for outer space, space suit, space car, or another invention that will help them to innovate and dream big.
Activity 3
Choose one of the 17 careers and create a 3-D story board of Cas and Kanga Blue Exploring that career.
Recommended supplies:
- Cardboard
- Pipe Cleaner
- Wiggly Eyes
- Paper Towel & Toilet Paper
- Rolls
- Fabric
- Bubble Wrap
- Shoe Boxes
- Empty Egg Cartons
- String
- Yarn
- Hole cutter
Instead of throwing out straws, clean them and use as a Makerspace supply
Odds and ends that are discarded by humans but have endless uses and repurposing opportunities for the creators and little big dreamers in your learning spaces!
Visit this Wakelet Collection for additional ideas for tinkering and making in your learning spaces
The Spaces You’ll Go: Career Activities
These activities have been developed by Mark Branger to accompany the book and explore each of the STEM careers listed in The Spaces You’ll Go glossary. Each lesson has a video to introduce the career and then lesson activities to accompany each career.
The Spaces You’ll Go Career Exploration Activities
The Spaces You’ll Go STEM Career Lessons for Grades K-4
“Career exploration starts with having career conversations with children from early in life. Conversations about their likes and dislikes, their interests, their skills, what problems they would like to solve and eventually with what lifestyle they would like to someday live.
I also believe that teaching STEM careers in elementary grades opens the door for teachers and students to become tomorrow’s innovators. Young children with a strong foundation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics will go on to play an integral role in our nation’s future. Teachers can foster critical thinking through problem solving in elementary STEM lessons and provide students with a competitive edge in their future job market.
These lessons were developed for After School programming, however, they may be integrated into the regular classroom instruction or used in any setting where you are working with students grades K–4.”
Mark Branger, Executive Director of Montana ACTE