{"id":423,"date":"2019-06-17T06:50:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T13:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=423"},"modified":"2019-06-16T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T22:16:52","slug":"the-apollo-missions-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/the-apollo-missions-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apollo Missions for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/apollomissionsforkids-595x460.jpg?resize=525%2C406&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"406\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9087\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2RjZDAu\">The Apollo Missions for Kids: The People and Engineering Behind the Race to the Moon, with 21 Activities<\/a><br \/>\nby Jerome Pohlen (Author)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> In addition to learning about ALL of the Apollo missions, readers can prepare for #Apollo50 next month with these 21 hands-on activities, that include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Determining what they would weigh on the moon<\/li>\n<li>Learning to identify the moon\u2019s features<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrating orbital mechanics with a marble and a shallow bowl<\/li>\n<li>Calculating how far away the moon is using sports equipment<\/li>\n<li>Recreating the shape and size of the command module<\/li>\n<li>Eating like an astronaut and making &#8220;space food&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Designing a mission patch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Moongazing<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst, locate <strong>Tycho<\/strong>, the large white crater on the lunar map above. This will help you determine north and south. The full moon will appear to be lying on its left side if you look at it just after sundown and on its right side just before sunrise. Also, if you look at moon with a telescope, everything will be inverted&#8211;upside down&#8211;or mirrored left to right. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apollo Missions for Kids: The People and Engineering Behind the Race to the Moon, with 21 Activities by Jerome Pohlen (Author) Booktalk: In addition to learning about ALL of the Apollo missions, readers can prepare for #Apollo50 next month with these 21 hands-on activities, that include: Determining what they would weigh on the moon &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/the-apollo-missions-for-kids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Apollo Missions for Kids&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-6P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1938,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/apollo-11-and-artemis-ii-activities-for-classrooms-and-libraries\/","url_meta":{"origin":423,"position":0},"title":"Apollo 11 and Artemis II Activities for Classrooms and Libraries","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"February 23, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Printable Man on the Moon activities are in a Beacon Library app in the cloud. 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