Sixth Grade

• Astronomy & Space
• Engineering & Technology
• Expedition / Survival

Why it works: New Horizons has a destination, a nine-and-a-half-year journey, strict engineering limits, and a once-only encounter with Pluto. Following the team as they build the spacecraft and interpret its images turns planetary geology and remote exploration into the unfolding discoveries of a mission.

• General / Multiple Sciences
• Expedition / Survival

Why it works: In the Field with National Geographic tells the organization's 135-year story through the explorers, scientists, educators, photographers, and innovations that carried questions from Everest to microscopes, deep seas, and space. The changing people and tools make multidisciplinary discovery an expedition history rather than an encyclopedia of subjects.

• Earth Science
• Life Science
• Comics / Graphic Narrative

Why it works: Science Comics: Dinosaurs follows a century and a half of fossil hunters as discoveries repeatedly change the dinosaurs people draw and describe. The history becomes an evidence mystery in which feathers, bones, field finds, and competing interpretations revise the scientific picture.

• Life Science
• Environment & Ecology
• Comics / Graphic Narrative

Why it works: Science Comics: Sharks dives from hammerheads and great whites to nurse sharks and the extinct megalodon while challenging the monster image people give them. Four hundred million years of adaptations, varied habitats, and predator roles turn fear into a visual investigation of shark diversity and ecological importance.

• Engineering & Technology
• Comics / Graphic Narrative

Why it works: Science Comics: Robots and Drones gives Pouli, an early mechanical bird, a funny journey from tea-serving automata to factory robots, flying drones, and Mars rovers. His travels reveal how robots sense, follow instructions, move, and change when people design them for different jobs.