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There’s No Place Like Home

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Book meta-data
  • Reading Box: Emerald (Levels 25-26)
  • Year: Three
  • Fiction/Nonfiction: Non-fiction
  • Theme/Topic: Discovery, Maths, Science and technology, Space
  • Genre: Explanation, Report
  • Strategy/Skills: Sequencing, Using texts as models
  • Page Count: 32
  • Reading Level: 25
  • Item Code: 200461
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  • Curriculum Codes: ACELY1680, ACELY1690, ACELY1691, ACELY1692, ACELA1797, ACELY1702, ACELY1703
Reader Description

If you took a tour of the planets in our solar system, you'd discover that none are quite like Earth. Mars is the best possibility for a future colony away from Earth. But really, there's no place like home!

After you have completed the Reader

Earth is sometimes described as a Goldilocks planet. It has all the things we need to live. Using your knowledge of the fairy tale, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, write an explanation of why Earth is called a Goldilocks planet. Share your writing with your family. Do they agree with your explanation?

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