Target Audience: Grades K-12
Description:
The wonders of the universe will be yours to explore with this resource kit with a focus on astronomy. The kit contains a telescope, star finders and resource books with astronomy activities for all grade levels.
Format:
The kit contains the following.
- Supplies: Meade ETX Astro Telescope, Binoculars, Astronomy Flashlight, 30 Star Finders, and a maintenance kit.
- Resource Books: Peterson Field Guides: Stars and Planets; The Stars: A New Way to See Them; 365 Starry Nights; Scientific American Presents the Future of Space Exploration.
- Activity Books: The Young Astronomer, Ranger Rick’s Nature Scope; Astronomy: It’s Out of This World; The Universe at Your Fingertips; GEMS Earth, Moon and Stars Teacher’s Guide; NASA Exploring Meteorite Mysteries; NASA Exploring the Moon; NASA Planetary Geology; NASA’s Great Observatories.
- Video: The Theory of Wow! A Kid-Size Exploration of the Solar System
- CD-ROM: PC’s in Space; NASA Imagine the Universe/Starchild
Science Skills:
The curriculum is correlated to the National Science Standards:
- Objects in the sky (grades K-4) Changes in earth and sky (grades K-4)
- Earth in the solar system (grades 5-8)
- Origin and evolution of the universe (grades 9-12)
Cost:
Free check out kits are available. (Exploring the Universe kits are funded by the Iowa Space Grant Consortium.)
Nicole; Meridith
5/28/2007