The Moon Lander
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The Moon Lander
Sarah stopped in front of a large, spider-like machine with four legs. It had a gold-colored base and several small windows around its sides.
"This is a model of the lunar lander," Alex explained. "These special spacecraft were designed to land astronauts safely on the moon's surface. The legs help it stand steady on the rocky moon surface."
"But why does it look so different from regular spacecraft?" asked Sarah.
"That's because it only needs to work in space and on the moon," Alex replied. "It doesn't need to be streamlined like rockets that have to fly through Earth's atmosphere. The gold foil helps protect it from extreme temperatures in space!"
Comprehension quiz (4 questions)
1. What did the lunar lander look like?
2. Why does the lunar lander have legs?
3. Why doesn't the lunar lander need to be streamlined?
4. What was special about the gold-colored material on the lander?
Common Core standards for The Moon Lander
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.
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