Astronauts | Astronaut Report | Research Project

Engage your students with this fun and comprehensive Astronaut Research Report resource. It helps has make report writing easy! It contains Geography questions, organizers, tools and forms to use for your students to create, develop, write, edit, illustrate, present, and assess your students’ Astronaut Research Report

This report (or performance task) is also designed to not only to learn and explain the new information, but answer some higher level thinking questions (Common Core Essential Questions) to apply the knowledge they have learned.

This resource can be for their formal report or utilized as a study guide to develop their report for them to type or write on their own. This packet is designed for you to pick and choose the parts of the report that you’d like to use, or just use it all! There are many text dependent questions for your students to research and cite their evidence of where they found the information, a vocabulary section, and some essential questions where your students can apply the knowledge they have learned at a deeper, higher level. We encourage you to have your students use a wide variety of resources to gather the necessary information to complete this report. This packet contains the following:

• Template includes: Questions about the factual information about many aspects of Astronauts

• Biography pages for choosing an astronaut to research

• Essential Questions designed for application of knowledge and higher level thinking

• A page to help your students find information for their report.

• Resource page and Bibliography Template- I use the Resource Page template because my students are not ready to learn the rules of a true bibliography, but if you teach bibliography skills I have included a template for you.

• Note Taking page for students to take notes and a note taking page in bullet format. Copy as needed.

• Rubrics- Performance Task for the Written Report

• Editing and Revising Checklist.

• Teacher Notes and Ideas.

1 PDF file.