Students will see more than stars when mobile planetarium visits
OCTOBER 25, 2009 - Gregory Elementary School students will experience the wonder of nature, history and astronomy when the Planetarium Dome Theater arrives at their school.
Designed to dazzle and teach students about the excitement of science, the mobile planetarium offers the latest audio and visual learning technologies over a broad range of subject areas. The programs will take place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, at Gregory.
There will be three programs offered to different grade levels:
The Dinosaur Prophecy: Kindergarteners, first- and second-graders will join paleontologists at the “scene of the crime,” excavating bones and trying to learn what killed the mighty dinosaurs—all while watching lifelike dinosaurs roam across the dome. They will also find out how NASA scientists monitor the earth for potential disasters.
Lucy’s Cradle: Third-graders will journey through the solar system to see the other worlds in our solar neighborhood. This program allows them to journey back into time to ancient Africa, home of the world’s most famous fossil. Lucy’s Cradle tells how changes in the earth’s geography and atmosphere and Lucy’s upright posture combined to allow creatures first to observe the skies. The Dinosaur Prophecy is a co-production of the Rice Space Institute and the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
Force Five: Extreme weather takes center stage in this realistic animated show for fourth and fifth-graders, revealing images not seen by the naked eye due to their life-threatening nature. Using real movies and NASA-based images, students will discover what it would look and feel like standing in the middle of a deadly storm. Force Five was funded by NASA’s Museum Teaching Planet Earth Project at Rice University and by the Image Spacecraft Mission.
Gregory also will be hosting its annual Family Literacy Night from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5. The theme this year is “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader?” Students and parents will be able to rotate through classrooms and play some of their favorite games: Pictionary, Memory, Bingo, Sentence Slam, Concentration and, of course, Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader? |
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