Rockets, space, and FMS
We are looking into whether the library should buy more books about space and rockets or should we just have students use the Internet? Remember, you may voice an opinion, but you must back it up with factual information from a reliable source. Give the name of the source for each piece of information.
I want to see titles of books that you think would be good for our library. (A good source for books would be an online bookstore, or a library catalog such as MINERVA.) I also want to see titles of websites that you would recommend to students studying space and rockets.
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There are many online sights that can give alot of info. Why buy books about space and rockets instead of going online and fin ding great info. But just because you dont need books dont throw out the old ones every book is good for some kind of reaserch. The other option is to go to the sight where you can rent books from other places (Librarys) around Maine. Some website are Rocket and space technology and austranought school ed. The net has every thing from how to build a rocket to how to be a austranaught. Here are some cool facts. They use flower tortias instead of bread to avoid floating crumbs. 12 austranoughts have walked on the moon and they have brought back 382 kl of moon rock & soil. Neptune could hold 60 earths but you couldent see it with the eye alone.
Natalie & Emily, there are certainly many sites (sp.) that give us a lot (sp) of info. That is what made me start to wonder about the kind of books we have in our library on the subject of rockets and space. I like the fact that every book is good for some kind of research (sp), but I wouldn’t want to give students a book that wasn’t factually correct. That is one reason why we make sure that science books are “up to date”. I like the random facts which you have found. Remember to always give the citation for interesting facts you find. The citation for a website would be the URL/address for the site.
I think we should use the internet to get books. first of all, it costs less money to get books off the interne. some sites I sugest are amazon or any other online libary.
Hi Matt,
Mrs. Hall- Riddle and I do use the internet to help us choose books. We use Amazon.com and Minerva for book suggestions. Are there some books that you have found on these sites that you think we should have in our library?
Mrs. B.
I could’nt find very many websites on the internet because all the websites I went to were all for adults! And I cant recomend any books because I could’nt find any books either so I dont really have any recomendations.
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Hi Will,
I like your answer. One of the biggest problems with the internet is that there are too many resources and so many are writeen for adults with bigger vocabularies. That makes it very hard to find good answers. I like to have a combination of both internet sites and books. Maybe you could look on Amazon to find some titles that you think would be good.
Mrs. B.
Dear Mrs.Becksvoort,
We think you should buy books on space rockets because one, kids can get better at library skills when they look up space rockets. Plus some websites don’t give you exactly what you need. They just tell you the simple things. Like non-factual things on nasa that are very boring. Then with books you my read statements that the people going in to space wrote. Then with books you have an orginized area to look at. And remember when you explained how the web is so mixed up? Well since the web is like that you may end up with many… usless things that you probably don’t need. I don’t have much anymore room but i do have many more thoughts.
We think you shuold buy books because website sometimes don’t give the truth.Here are some books!
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The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist
0. Hardcover: 174 pages
0. Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 24, 2006)
0. Language: English
0. ISBN-10: 0387308768
0. ISBN-13: 978-0387308760
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Rocket Boys: A Memoir (Hardcover)Author: Homer H. Hickam
Looking back after a distinguished NASA career, Hickam shares the story of his youth in a coal mining town.
I Following the launching of the Sputnik, a young boy and his friends in West Virginia build a rocket and win the 1960 National Science Fair.
Review
I cannot say enough about how this book takes you in and grabs you with its very detailed story telling. Mr. Hickam paints a picture for you through the entire book that is clearer than your television. It’s an awesome story about one boys dreams, and the things he had to endure to make them come true. If you’ve ever had a passion for anything you’ll be able to relate easily to it
Rockets and Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology (Hardcover)Author: A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Beginning with World War II, missiles transformed the art of war. For the first time, cities of warring nations were vulnerable to sudden, unannounced, long-distance destruction. At the same time, rockets made possible one of the great triumphs of the modern age–the exploration of space. Rockets and Missiles traces the history of the technology that led to both the great fear of global warfare, and the great excitement of the Space Age. Beginning with the origins of rocketry in medieval and early modern Asia, the volume focuses on rocketry in late-20th-century Western Europe, Russia, and the United States, and also covers the spread of rocket technology in East Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere
We think it is a total waste of money to buy books on space and rockets, when you can go online and get info for free. You’d probably get even more informatoin off one site than a whole book. On nasa.gov, we found lots of things on how life works in space shuttles,facts on the rocket itself, it even updates you on the current events in space today(updated regularly).It even has a kids website with kid friendly games and facts. At amazingspace.stsci.edu its tells you the deep sky objects, planets, events, and constellations. Thats not as much for rockets, but it most likely will help you out on informing you on space. Space.com has things on the solar system and about the astrounts that landed on any plantets.(also updated regularly.) As we said, buying space and rocket books will be uselesscompared to using the interenet, you could find way more things that are also free, books are not and don’t give you 1/2 of the info. Using the internet, theres a change that you would be able to listen to recordings, watching cool videos, music in the backround and sometimes virtual tours. Books are just not capable of that.
I looked at the copywrite dates of some of the books in the library about rockets and if I were a reasercher It would have made me want to give up. So I think that the web is much better. I DONT WANT a book that has been written in 1988 that states it has “new geology” on rockets so I came up with some awesome websites with pictures and fun things just so your not reading a 400 page book about boring stuff from the 80’s.Here are the sites- http://edspace.nasa.gov/astroschool/ -www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub.html-those are some super cool websites because they are fun. A few word about them are that the nasa one is made by nasa so its like nasa for kids and the other one has all about space and how to be an austranaught. These websites are easy to read and kid friendly and much fun to be on. Thanks for reading and try to log on these sites.
Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices
By William Gurstelle.
Hi Jordan,
I’m glad you found a book title to recommend! Thank you for writing and I think the title is fantastic! We are making a list of new books to buy and I hope this is on that list. You have given me all the info that I need to order the book. Good work.
Mrs. B.
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut by Mike Mullane (Paperback - Feb 6, 2007)
Sky Walking: An Astronaut’s Memoir (Hardcover)
by Thomas D. Jones
Sky Walking: An Astronaut’s Memoir (Hardcover)
by Thomas D. Jones
Rocketman: Astronaut Pete Conrad’s Incredible Ride to the Moon and Beyond (Hardcover)
by Nancy Conrad, Howard A. Klausner, Buzz Aldrin
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Hi Mac, I enjoyed working with you. You found great choices on Amazon.
I think a great website is Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library. hope you find good books.
Hi Matt,
Glad to see your comment. I’ll check out the site. Perhaps you could give the URL when you find another site. I’ll check to see what books the Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library has in its database. What made you pick this library site? I hope we find books that you will like.
Mrs. B.
Dane and I have found some relly great rocket books that the library should buy here are some we found:
Rocket Powerd Sicence by:Edwin J.C. Sobey,
Space Systems failures: disasters and rescues of satellites, rockets and space probes by: David M. Harland and Ralf D. lorenz,
Riding Rockets by: Mike Mullane,
The Rocket Men by:Rex Hall + David J shaler last but not least we found
Space in the Tropics from Convicts to Rockers and French Guiana. These books have the information that this library could find useful.
Hi Sean and Dane, thanks for your suggestions. I put them in list form so they would be easier to read. I hope that is ok with you. The last title sounds a bit unusual. I’ll check to see what it is all about. We always check the reviews of books before we buy them. That’s how we decide to buy new books without actually reading all of them. So, it’s good to have helpers from our class to give us suggestions.
Mrs. B.
i think FMS library should use books and the internet because you can
get twice as much information.
Three books are:
Backyard ballistics, 50 rocket projects for the evil genius by Gavin D J Harper,
Experimenting with model rockets: Teacher’s guide (Great explorations in math and science) by Cary Ivan Sneider
Marshall, what a great comment. I like the fact that you recognize that we find information in a variety of places. Sometimes the Internet is just what we need and then other times I like to hold a book in my hands. Thanks for the book suggestions. I put in a few bits of punctuation to help me find the titles more easily. Punctuation sure does help when we are trying to understand what someone has written. Many people put one, or even two, spaces after a dot when writing a sentence. It makes reading so much easier. I like your thinking Marshall - keep reading about space!
Mrs. B.
we found some quit interesting books for “space detectives”. First we knew that NASA was would be good to look up so we did. we looked it up and found a book called, “Deep Space: The NASA Mission reports.” It is all about space and the trip that astronauts went through and about space when they got there. It is definetely something we would recomend for the Falmouth Middle School library.
we have been researching more space,rockets etc… and we have found some new interesting books here they are (there are only 3), “1001 facts about Space”, “Earth and Space”, and “All About Space.” These books are very informitive on space and facts. We suggest either you have them in the library or you should put them in the library.
I think that we should buy new books on astronomy because online all the facts might not be true. If we buy new books the books had to be reviewed by a editor and publisher so the facts must be true.The extention of the astronomy section would be good for the school so kids can just come to the library instead of searching the world wide web which on Google you could get over 1,000,000 results and could be a waste of time.
Hi Eric C.,
We are going to buy new books on astronomy! We have a really good list created by other kids in library skills classes. They used amazon.com and MINERVA to find some great titles. If you would like to make some suggestions, that would be super!
Mrs. B.
We found out a lot of things about wolves. Like their tails and what they mean when they are in a certain position. And what happens when the pack gets too big. I never knew that they had to kick out a young wolf if the pack got too big I always thought that they killed them. I like what they do instead. I think it is so cool that they circle the prey and that the alfa wolf gives the signal to kill it. I also did not know that a wolf would try to join a new pack to get better food because a wolf on its own can not get hooved animals because they are too fast and too dangerous.;)
Hi Athena,
Thanks for writing. It seems that you have uncovered a lot of interesting information in your research. What I wonder is whether you would change any part of the research process. I urge you to pay close attention to your spelling and always proofread what you have written.
Mrs. B.