Cross-Curricular Connections
In “Mad”, the speaker imagines that she travels to the moon so that she doesn’t have to be around her mother. One way of blowing off steam is to exercise. (We can’t all go to the moon!) Click on the link below to learn about the President’s Challenge, a national youth fitness program.
http://www.presidentschallenge.org/home_teens.aspx
In the future, people may be able to pay for a trip to the moon. Would you like to travel to the moon? Click on the link below to read a news article about space tourism.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,993171,00.html