Martian Rock

Martian Rock

By Carol Diggory Shields

Grade 3

SCIENCE FICTION

In this book 3 astronauts and a mascot take off from their home planet Mars . They are hoping to find intergalactic friendship. They wanted to find evidence of life somewhere else. They went place to place and found no life forms and were getting very frustrated. They were just fixing to give up but came across the south pole. They didn't think they saw anything but all of the sudden the captain spotted something. The alien life form strolled up to them and nodded to them and gave a squawk. The rest of the life-forms (penguins) came and greeted the Martians and befriended them. The Martians were really excited and called home and said there was life on a planet next door to them. I would use this book during a science lesson on planets and space. I would probably use this to introduce the solar system because it talks about different characteristics of what they were viewing in space on their voyage. This seems like a fun and engaging book that would be great implement in a science lesson!