Grade 5. 2024. 56 pages. Lexile range: 840-930L. Sailing Under the Stars reader serves as an informational text resource that is incorporated into many lessons in the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom™ 2nd Edition module How Can We Use the Sky to Navigate? Topics include: Star Gazing; Living in Microgravity; The Shadow Knows; Stories in the Stars; Doing the Beetle Dance; Lost and Found; and Polynesian Navigators. Soft cover.

Grade 5. 2024. 56 pages. Lexile range: 840-930L. Sailing Under the Stars literacy reader serves as an informational text resource that is incorporated into the main activities of many lessons in the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom™ 2nd Edition module How Can We Use the Sky to Navigate?

Topics include:

• Star Gazing: An introduction to stars (890L)
• Living in Microgravity: An astronaut's perspective about living in space (880L)
• The Shadow Knows: Telling time from the Sun and shadows (890L)
• Stories in the Stars: Mythology behind star constellations (880L)
• Doing the Beetle Dance: How dung beetles use the sky to navigate (930L)
• Lost and Found: Stories of a successful and unsuccessful voyage (880L)
• Polynesian Navigators: How ancient Polynesians navigated the Pacific Ocean (840L)

The reader connects student literacy to science in the real world. Soft cover.