Today's Classroom Activities :

Classroom Stars

Classroom Stars
Science/Art Cover a bulletin board with black paper to represent the night sky. Have students make paper stars to use in building the constellations they see in the night sky. Align the bulletin board and label what would be true north, south, east and west as it looks when lying flat on the ground in your area. Go to www.astroleague.org for alignment assistance.

In Supernova Starbursts you see a colorful representations of the end of a star's life cycle.

Find an easy-to-make 3-D model of this star formation that will help to put its familiar shape into perspective in Building the Big Dipper.