The Challenger Centers for Space Science Education have created a detailed Teacher's Guide to accompany the first novel in the Star Challengers series, Moonbase Crisis. This Guide is an educational companion to help extend the learning as students enjoy the novel. The book includes a series of Language Arts lessons based on science and technical vocabulary development, figurative and idiomatic language, expository writing, and others. The section on Science and Math lessons includes Moon math problems, biology lessons on growing food on the Moon, a project to build your own moonbase model in a shoebox, experiments showing the parts of...
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The Challenger Centers for Space Science Education have created a detailed Teacher's Guide to accompany the first novel in the Star Challengers series, Moonbase Crisis. This Guide is an educational companion to help extend the learning as students enjoy the novel. The book includes a series of Language Arts lessons based on science and technical vocabulary development, figurative and idiomatic language, expository writing, and others. The section on Science and Math lessons includes Moon math problems, biology lessons on growing food on the Moon, a project to build your own moonbase model in a shoebox, experiments showing the parts of...
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Panel Schedule for Superstars Writing Seminar
Here's the schedule of panels for the next Superstars Writing Seminar, which will be held in Salt Lake City, January 13–15. As you can see from the list of topics, this three-day seminar is packed with great stuff, no-nonsense and practical material taught by six bestselling authors. We're not aware of anything comparable for the serious aspiring, or even professional, writer. Sessions begin in three weeks. We look forward to seeing you there. Sign up now at Superstars Writing Seminar. THURSDAY 8:30 AM Intro, seminar overview, introduce speakers (Kevin) 9:00 Econ 201 for Writers: Economics...
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Rebecca and I just did an hour-long Writers Advisory conference call about collaborating, various techniques, the reasons to do it, pitfalls, etc. You can listen to the MP3 free by clicking on Collaboration Discussion Also, in the spirit of the holidays—as well as to tie in with the Collaboration subject—we are offering a $200 discount if two people sign up together for this January's Superstars Writing Seminar in Salt Lake City. Find a writing buddy, a friend who's interested in a career as a writer, and save (new signups only). Could be something to put on your gift list? We...
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