Travelling to Titan & Voyage to the Giants 25-26

Travelling to Titan & Voyage to the Giants presents an exciting journey from imaginative space adventure to real-world space exploration. In Travelling to Titan, siblings Kate and Zac set off with their family to live on Saturn's moon, only to discover a surprise stowaway on board. Written as a play script, the story includes factual details about space travel, allowing students to explore the drama genre while learning scientific facts. Voyage to the Giants documents the real-life missions of Voyager II, which explored the giant planets of our solar system and continues to send data from beyond. This non-fiction text is packed with visual features-photographs, diagrams, timelines-and introduces advanced space science terms. Together, these titles connect fiction and science, encouraging inquiry, creativity, and critical thinking.

Educational Benefits:

• Introduces play script conventions and encourages expressive oral reading
• Builds understanding of space science, missions, and planets
• Develops skills in interpreting diagrams, timelines, and factual texts
• Encourages the integration of scientific facts within narrative formats

Classroom Ideas:

• Perform scenes from Travelling to Titan using expressive voice and actions
• Create a Voyager mission timeline with key facts and visuals
• Research the planets visited by Voyager II and present findings in a mini-report
• Design a fictional planet and write a dramatic scene set on it

Safety & Information:

• Suitable for ages 8+
• Dimensions: 200mm x 210mm
• Printed using environmentally safe inks and materials
• Supports cross-curricular learning in science, drama, and reading comprehension