The unplugged theme for this week is dark so we made a homemade planetarium. First we learned about circumpolar constellations. Then we followed the direction to make a bedroom planetarium. It was really pretty easy. We used an oatmeal container and then used black construction paper and a thumb tack to poke holes where the stars are in certain constellations. The final step is to tape your construction paper constellations to one end a shine a flashlight through the other. Above Georgia is poking her stars.
I then gave the girls a star scatter and had them create their own constellation by connecting the dots.
I then gave the girls a star scatter and had them create their own constellation by connecting the dots.
Here is Jo making hers.
After poking through the black construction paper I had them connect the stars with a white crayon.
3 comments:
I love this idea---I didn't "do" dark--because I couldn't figure out what to do---this was a great idea!
This is something I've always been interested in, but never did learn a whole lot about, so thank you girls for once again teaching ME something!
love,
Jenny
ohhhhh!!! i've been wanting to make this project for sooo long!!! i have several oatmeal tins waiting for it! great job!!!
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