The Space Race
• NASA-Apollo-Soyuz: An orbital partnership begins
• The Moon Landing: Apollo 11
•Modern History Sourcebook: John F. Kennedy: The Space
Challenge, Sept 3, 1962
Embedded Media
• Space Race Exhibition
*see below
Key People
Places & Events
• Neil Armstrong
• Cold War
• Frank Borman
• Russia,
The Soviet Era
• John Glenn
• Race to the Moon
• Alan Shepard
Literature
• Queen Mab
• From Earth
to the Moon
• The First Men
in the Moon
Primary Sources
• Space: The
Ultimate Vacation
Destination
• President Barack Obama’s speech at
the John F. Kennedy Space Center,
2010
• John F. Kennedy’s Speech at Rice
University, 1962
• Quotes about the U.S. Space Program
and Spaceflight
Challenge Reading
*Embedded Media
• Space Satellites
Video
• Space Agencies and Centers
• Space Exploration and Travel
News Stories
• Soviet Military Parade
• The First Spacewalk
• President John F. Kennedy’s
Address to Congress, 1961
• The Apollo-Soyuz Docking
• Friendship 7 Liftoff
Diagram
• Inside the Gemini
Spacecraft
• The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Blended resources
of curated content!*
• 50 e-books/flipbooks
• 360+ popup features within the
e-books including primary source
video and audio, virtual tours,
dramatic readings of letters and
first-hand accounts, primary source
images, texts and facsimiles of
historical documents
• Each unit anchored by introductory
video – a total of 50 videos
• 950+ Grolier Online articles
• 530+ vetted Web links
• 400+ primary source documents,
works of fiction, poems, plays, archived
news stories, maps/charts, and more
Works on
ALL tablets
and mobile
devices!
• 50 lesson plans
• 50 project ideas
• 150+ “What Do You Think” questions to guide reading or spark a
classroom discussion – 2 to 4 per unit
• 200 writing prompts to assess comprehension as well as higher order thinking – 4 per unit
• 50 “Show What You Know” quizzes (10 multiple choice questions per unit) – a total of
500 multiple choice questions
• Natural-voice read-aloud technology
• Curriculum correlations for each title, including Common Core State Standards
*counts include September 2013 new releases