Teacher links:

Workshop Opportunity: June 25-28-Stipend included!

See the flyer, or the registration sheet.

Brought to you by the friendly folks at CIPAIR, a NASA grant locally represented by Robeson Community College, UNCP, and the Robeson Planetarium and Science Center.

 

 

 

Teacher Handbook for Planetarium Trips

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.:

 

Directed by Ken Brandt, M. Ed., NBCT

Contact Information: email kenneth.brandt@robeson.k12.nc.us Phone: 910-735-2148

Astronomy Days, May 19&20: http://naturalsciences.org/programs-events/astronomy-days-0

Our next public programs: Saturday, June 2, at  Noon and Tuesday, June 5th, from 4-8 pm:

Transit of Venus: How to view it, what you'll see, and how we use transits to prove the existence of other planets like Earth! 

   

Transit resources: http://www.transitofvenus.org/  Kepler mission planet candidates as of February 2012, above

Seating Capacity 65/program

Reservations: Call 735-2148

Website: www.robesonsky.com

Email: ken.starsabove@gmail.com

Here is a link to an online catalog of minerals you're likely to find in our flume: Mining Rough

Solar Power,         Wind Power

                                      and                 LED's:                                      

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

MAGMA

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:

Galileo Was Right!