Neil Armstrong lesson

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 lesson.

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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 NEWSLETTER? It’s awesome!), markers, US geography notebooking pages (you get a coupon to get this for free as part of the welcome series in the newsletter)

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.

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.

Future Ticia would use some videos, so let me share some more resources

More Neil Armstrong resources

Future Ticia 2024 says here are a few more resources I found as I updated this post this time.

Of course, we need to share his walking on the moon video:

Next, we’ve got NASA’s memorial video they shared after he passed away.

I looked at the other videos that came up and most of them are rehashes of this or the “no we really did land on the moon,” so I think this is all that we need.

I might come back later and see if I can find some more books for him, because while that was an awesome book, I know your library may not have it.

More geography or astronomy fun for all ages

• Poland Unit
• Jupiter Science lesson
• NASA field trip
• United Arab Emirates Unit
• France Unit