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Clark Planetarium and IMAX Field Trip

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August 18, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

When I heard we could go see an IMAX about Pangaea for FREE, I was excited.

And the Clark Planetarium is always free. This doesn’t get any better!

Dinosaur Passage to Pangaea Movie

All we had to do was make clay dinosaurs since the IMAX is Claymation. Easy peasy!

clay dinosaurs

The nifty electricity ball

electricity ball
electricity ball fun

Working on their scavenger hunts from the planetarium’s website.

scavenger hunts

A really cool projector-illuminated Earth…

illuminated Earth model

We saw meteors, moon rocks, and Mars rocks.

Katie is irritated with me here that I interrupted her “scavenging.”

Scavenging for Information

Display of different kinds of space rocks

space rocks

Alex was fascinated by the pendulum that showed the movement of Earth

Earth Pendulum

The movie was great.

We had popcorn, slushies, candy, and it was 3D!

Alex did really well sitting still and watching it and keeping his glasses on.

The film was snarky and fun and Claymation!

It gave us some opportunities to have conversation about Creationism and evolution and dinosaurs.

We just learned about Pangaea in our science book!

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Stargazer’s Guide to the Night Sky Review

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July 5, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

I reviewed The Stargazer’s Guide to the Night Sky  by Dr. Jason Lisle.

This is a great intro to astronomy book. Oh, I wish I had received this when we were doing our space unit back in March!

This astronomy book is a wonderful resource.


It’s not a living book like I prefer, but a really well put together textbook.

Twelve chapters and an afterword about the relevance of astronomy.

There’s a quote from Macbeth, people! I highly respect any scientist who can and does quote Shakespeare.

Dr. Jason Lisle is well-known for his apologetics and creationist arguments.

I don’t see a whole lot of that in this book; it is a well written and informative text on basic astronomy. Dr. Lisle professes that he loves astronomy in the introduction and it certainly shows throughout the text.

It is filled with lovely and well though out charts and graphs and pictures and drawings to help children understand the concept. It’s quite gorgeous and the kids just love looking at the pictures of deep space. God’s creation is truly amazing.

I recommend this book as a base text on an astronomy unit or even as a supplement. It’s a sturdy hardback book that will last for generations or several rough and tumble kiddos.

We currently use another science series, but I will keep this on our shelf for when we next do some astronomy. Now, to go get that telescope fixed!

The Stargazers Guide to the Night Sky offers everything you need to explore the remarkable beauty of the stars, moon, and planets. Dr. Jason Lisle, a research scientist with a masters and Ph.D. in astrophysics provides a very thorough, practical and easy to read resource to fuel the curiosity of amateur astronomers ages 10 to 100.

  • Understand how the eye works to enhance your views of the night sky
  • Study the 150 stunning, full-color star charts to learn the names and placement of constellations
  • Discover how to observe the galaxies with the naked eye
  • Learn how to choose and use a telescope
  • Investigate the celestial motions and events
  • Learn best practices for astrophotography

These simple tips and tricks from Dr. Lisle will make your stargazing sessions go from mediocre to spectacular. The Stargazers Guide to the Night Sky is the size of a hardcover textbook, boasting 240 glossy pages of education for the hobby astronomer or science student. This resource is excellent for the family, couples, or individuals who like to learn and explore the beauty of God’s creation.

Now includes the free Stargazer’s Planisphere. This chart helps you locate the positions of stars on any night of the year so you can better enjoy God’s amazing night sky.

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Astronomy Unit Study

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March 12, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

We added some Montessori materials for our science studies

Morning message pages introducing our astronomy unit:

Morning Message

The UMOCA had a FREE kids’ craft making astronomy mobiles.

Well, don’t ya know we hightailed it over there! Fun, fun fun! Free, free, FREE!

UMOCA Field Trip

5 Little Astronauts. He named each little astronaut after our family members. So sweet!

5 Little Astronauts

The girls enjoyed learning about and labeling the moon phases.

Labeling Moon Phases

Kate loved our Montessori moon cards:

Moon Phases Montessori

Fun astronomy matching game

Astonomy Matching Game

Comet kabobs snack

Comet Snacks

There are stars in my apples!

Apple Stars

Mnemonic the girls wrote to remember the names of the planets. Yes, I know Pluto is not a planet anymore, but it was fun and we needed to include the word “pigs” somewhere!

Astronomy Mnemonic

So cute how they laid all out on the foyer floor to do their word searches!

Astronomy Word Search

Working on alphabetizing the planets in these adorable workbooks from Target’s dollar spot (a long time ago)

Astronomy Workbooks
Astronomy Workbook

Found a fun popup book at a discount bin.

Astronomy popup

Elizabeth did astronomy in 1st-2nd grade with Apologia Exploring Creation With Astronomy, so this will be review for her. Tori and Katie are so excited! I even have some fun little things to include Alex.

Astronomy Unit Study

Poetry

Here are some poems that we plan to work on this month. We love poetry! I will have the moon poem on our calendar board and the gravity poem in a Montessori poetry basket. I also have some other poems in the works.

Calendar

Week 1: Intro, Sun and stars
Week 2-3: planets
Week 4: comets, asteroids, and other heavenly bodies
Week 5-6: Earth and moon

We start off our morning each day with these: Calendar Connections.

Texts

Stargazer’s Guide to the Night Sky

Apologia Astronomy

Arts and Crafts

  • make a solar system mobile
  • moon sand sensory bin
  • moon painting
  • stencils and stamps
  • watercolor planets
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Time lapse phases of the #moon with @Oreo! #homeschool #science @apologiaworld #oreo

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Games

  • Astronauts to Earth
  • Space Dominoes
  • Space Memory

Notebooking

  • copywork
  • word searches
  • mazes
  • Fun space printables
  • More fun space printables

I have some biography studies, mostly for Elizabeth. She also wants to do some mythology comparisons with constellations.

Montessori

  • 3 part cards
  • Nomenclature cards
  • poetry

Books

Field Trips

We went to UMOCA (fun crafts!) and the Planetarium. We went star-gazing while camping on Antelope Island.

Watching a lot of Doctor Who counts too, right?

Check out my astronomy board:
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Astronomy Notebooking Pages
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