Waldorf: Stories for a third-grade astronomy unit?

[annettemarie]

Have any great stories for me to share?

[Rivka5]

I don't know Waldorf, so this might not be what you're after, but Joseph Bruchac wrote a beautiful picture book called The Story of the Milky Way, which is a Cherokee origin story.

Bruchac is Native American (Abenaki) so the book is much less, um, culturally problematic than a lot of picture books about Native Americans.

[annettemarie]

That sounds perfect, thank you!

[chfriend]

I love this series: http://www.amazon.com/Born-Bang-Univ...ef=pd_sim_b_27

So good with great art work.

Also, The HSCS has an astronomy classroom:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HSCS_A...guid=157226194

[Madame Pomfrey]

Here's one we used and still enjoy. It has glitter pockets that the kids fill and decorate to help them learn the patterns - lovely artwork, and great, short stories.

It won't be one you do in a unit as it shows the constellations based on looking for about one each month - telling you exactly where to look on that particular month. Accurate enough that we actually found all of them that first year.

Lucie

[Rivka5]

Oh! I forgot The Everything Seed, which is a really neat, and beautifully illustrated, book about the Big Bang.