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Ohio: Neil Armstrong

February 9, 2012 Ticia 7 Comments

I have a distinct memory of an ad from when I was around 11-years-old. The Mom talks about her great love for the Disney Channel and all about how her kids are arguing about who stepped on the moon first, Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin. Times have changed and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t say I thank the Disney Channel for educating my kids. However, I can say today’s lesson on one of Ohio’s most famous citizens, Neil Armstrong has taught my kids a few things. It makes for a fun history lesson and slots right into our US history and our geography lessons.

Neil Armstrong lesson, what do you want to be

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One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong

One Giant Leap follows the dreams of young Neil Armstrong and his goal to fly as high and far as he can. It talks about how he works to become a pilot and eventually becomes an astronaut

 

Supplies for our Neil Armstrong lesson

Ohio printable (on the subscriber page, have you joined my email newsletter? It’s awesome!), markers, US geography notebooking pages

 

Neil Armstrong Lesson

Someday I hope to do some fun crafts with the kids related to this book, but for our geography co-op instead, we focused on goal-setting, and how to achieve our goals.

Future Ticia here: we did have a fun lesson on paper airplanes and how to best design them, and there’s a fun Living in Space Unit

We talked about all of the jobs he worked, and all of the school he had to go through. Then I asked all of the kids to think of what job they wanted to work when they were adults.

goal setting Neil Armstrong lesson

Of course, my kids didn’t quite have a realistic plan, mostly.

Batman plans to be a ninja when he grows up, so to do that he needs to start collecting ninja weapons.

Superman plans to be a policeman and then a ninja.  He also needs to collect weapons.

Princess plans to be a missionary, and she needs to learn a lot about God.

Of those, only one is at all a viable plan.  You can be a missionary.  You can’t be a ninja policeman, or not legally.
Linking up to: All Things Beautiful

 

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Comments

  1. MaryAnne says

    February 9, 2012 at 2:03 pm

    lol! Your boys' career goals are hilarious, and Princess's goal is so sweet =)

    We've read that book too, and I agree – it's great!

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  2. Phyllis says

    February 9, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    LOL…the book sounds great. Yes, what-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up questions at this age can be quite fun.

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  3. Christy says

    February 9, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    I couldn't resist laughing at the ninja career plans!!!

    Princess is so sweet.

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  4. Lisa says

    February 9, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    Sounds like a great book! I will have to look into it. I love the Ninja Policeman goal! 🙂 It made me smile.

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  5. Nicole {tired, need sleep} says

    February 9, 2012 at 5:07 pm

    Ah boys and weapons – I think the main goal may just be collecting weapons, and they see being a ninja as a way to justify this. LOL.

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  6. Raising a Happy Child says

    February 10, 2012 at 1:24 am

    Princess has a sensible plan! I like how you make them think through their ideas.

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  7. Trisha @ clarionwren.com says

    February 10, 2012 at 3:06 pm

    Sounds like a great book!

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