PSRC Teacher links: In order to do your year-end closeout, you should schedule next year's field trips before summer starts. It would be grand if you knew when your school is scheduled to come, so here is the 2010-2011 calendar!
Helpful links for
Fourth, and
Fifth Grade
Teachers of the Sciences!
Cool links for class projects;
Mars Education and outreach links, as compiled for the Virgle project on google.
Would you like to be Galileo for a night? You can take your OWN telescope image using the Harvard University Robot telescopes
You can print a free star map here, courtesy of www.skymaps.com
Interested in an amateur astronomy club in our area? The Sand hills Astronomical Society meets monthly at the Fayetteville State University Planetarium. Click here for their information.
Is the Space station flying overhead tonight? Click here to find out! Log in using uncpastro as the user name, and rules as the password.
For those of you interested in seeing the moon during the day, click the link below to find out when to go out and observe during the school day:
link courtesy the Madison Metropolitan Planetarium, and Geoff Holt
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Directed by Ken Brandt, M. Ed., NBCT
Our next public programs:
July 27-28: Ring world!-Saturn and it's attendant rings and moons
We will also see the details behind one of the finest planetary alignments of this past decade!
Tuesday-Thursday programs at 11 am and 2 pm
Other upcoming events: The evenings of August 11,12, and 13 go out and see the Persied meteor shower
"...This meteor shower gets the name "Perseids" because it appears to radiate from the constellation Perseus. An observer in the Northern Hemisphere can start seeing Perseid meteors as early as July 23, when one meteor every hour or so could be visible. During the next three weeks, there is a slow build-up. It is possible to spot five Perseids per hour at the beginning of August and perhaps 15 per hour by August 10. The Perseids rapidly increase to a peak of 50-80 meteors per hour by the night of August 12/13 and then rapidly decline to about 10 per hour by August 15. The last night meteors are likely to be seen from this meteor shower is August 22, when an observer might see a Perseid every hour or so..."
Saturday, August 14, at 11 am and 1 pm: Hubble Vision II:
Come see yourself surrounded by space scenery!
Admission: $3.00 Adults, $2.00 Children ($2.00 per person additional for the gem mining adventure!)
Seating Capacity 65/program
Reservations: Call 735-2148
Email: brandtk.psrc@robeson.k12.nc.us
Admission for all groups that charge admission: $3.00 adults/$2.00 Students.
NEW: Here is a link to an online catalog of minerals you're likely to find in our flume: Mining Rough
NEW: The GREENer Robeson Planetarium!
Solar Power, NO Wind Power
though, and LED's:
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How much energy will we generate, and how much will we save? Stay tuned...
Please note that our schedule is subject to change, as current events in space science dictate.
Weather: here is a link for our own clear sky clock. See whether it'll be clear or cloudy here in SE NC.
For reservations and other information call (910) 735-2147, or email brandt@uncp.edu
The Robeson Planetarium is a proud part of the
Public Schools of Robeson County
We are also proudly affiliated with the following outstanding organizations:
A member of the
Southeastern Planetarium Association
and
The NC Grassroots Museums Collaborative
and
JPL/NASA Solar System Educators
and
The International Planetarium Society
and
Humanity's serious effort to explore and colonize Mars!
See the page of education and outreach activities I compiled for Virgle here
and
Kinesthetic Astronomy resources:
http://www.spacescience.org/education/extra/kinesthetic_astronomy/index.html
Ken Brandt's pod cast for the International Year of Astronomy: How to find the directions using the Sun and shadows, can be heard here: Ken's pod cast . Listen to today's pod cast Here.
Also, PBS's 400 Years of the Telescope premiered in April 2009. One of the teacher activities linked is Ken's
simple way to demonstrate the Phases of Venus, which Galileo saw 400 years ago. The activity can be found here: