Teaching children through imaginative stories is as old as civilization. Parables, fables, rhymes and stories help children put knowledge into a cultural context they can understand and integrate new knowledge with what they already know. Recent educational studies have shown teaching science through science fiction has been very effective in high school and college classes.
Maurice on the Moon brings effective and imaginative science fiction into the middle school classroom with a delightful, age-appropriate story that children will enjoy reading. The story also gives children a deeper and more meaningful context for the science and mathematics that they learn as they explore related activities and lessons.