Everything you need to understand or teach A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge.
Two races of people, the Emergents and the Qeng Ho, arrive at the OnOff star at the same time. The star is an anomaly in which the energy is literally switched off for two hundred fifteen of every two hundred fifty years. The two races have very different goals. The Emergents plan to mine and exploit the area for everything they can find of value while the Qeng Ho hope to...
A Deepness in the Sky Lesson Plans contain 141 pages of teaching material, including: