A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be An Astronomer & Exoplanet Hunter. Inside: 38 scaffolded discussion questions organized by chapter, a 22-word kid-friendly glossary, seven hands-on activities, seven extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections (math, science, social studies, ELA, visual arts, and computer science), and standards alignment with NGSS, Common Core math and ELA, and C3. The activities need flashlights, cardboard, and a schoolyard — no telescope required, and the book makes a point of that. Designed to flex from a single-week unit to a longer integration joining the physics of light to the history of who was permitted to do this work — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year: the scale-model activity in a ratio unit, the proposal-writing activity in a persuasive writing block, the vocabulary table in a study of scientific terminology. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the wonder and the waiting, the eight minutes of sunlight and the two trillion galaxies, the dip in a light curve that is one part in ten thousand, the proposal stamped REJECTED and the astronomer who writes the next one anyway. Includes a thoughtful teacher's note on handling the history of exclusion in science and on the cosmic-scale material that lands hard on some students — with guidance on giving them a written rather than spoken channel for their reaction.