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Strand One
Stargazing
for Beginners
Overview of this strand
Landmarks
– Finding directions from local landmarks
The
Stars as a Compass –
Finding north and south by the stars
Make a Star
Wheel – English-only or bilingual (Māori/English)
Chasing
the Stars – finding constellations on a star wheel and
a simulated sky
Under the Milky
Way – your first night out stargazing
Planet Hit List
– seeing all the planets
The Shifting
Stars – make a 3-D model of the sky and use it
to understand the sky's movement
Binocular
Bonanza –
Supporting
Resources –
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Strand Two
Daytime
Astronomy
Measuring the
Sun – make a straw quadrant
and use it to measure the
position of the sun
The Rolling Sun
– make a 3D sun path using your straw quadrant
Sundial City
– choose from among our unique designs, build a sundial and
test it. High interest sundials that dangle, sit on your desk, or
get painted on the playground. Cut from a piece of cardboard or
cast in bronze they look impressive and tell the time accurately.
(Four major designs to be published)
Binocular
Bonanza -
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Strand Three
Solar
System Simulations
There are plenty of
astronomy activities you can do at home or in the classroom, but
travelling to other planets is not one of them. We have devised
some activities that let you create astronomical models from
everyday materials.
Eat the Solar System
– create your own edible scale model of the solar system 1km/1,000
yards across
Balloon Globe –
make your own world globe from a balloon and use it to model the
seasons and eclipses using the sun as a light source
Collisions in
the Kitchen - make a comet, a crater, a Lunar lava lake, and
a volcano. Exciting cookery that explodes, splashes, hisses and
pops while teaching about the solar system |
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