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- Title
Grades K-3: Creating Constellations.
- Abstract
The article presents an instructional guide in teaching constellations to grades K-3 students. It notes the purpose of the lesson to have students make observations about patterns that the stars form using images of constellations, the Internet, and a planetarium. Materials include pictures of constellations, black paper, and white chalk. Teaching procedure is discussed. Students will have to listen to the book "Out and About at the Planetarium," by Theresa Jarosz Alberti. An activity which key point is to have students make observations about what they see is given. After students had a chance to observe the constellations, they will be asked to create their own constellation using a piece of black paper and white chalk.
- Subjects
CONSTELLATIONS; ASTRONOMY education; TEACHING methods; ASTRONOMICAL observations; ASTRONOMICAL models; PLANETARIUMS; OUT &; About at the Planetarium (Book)
- Publication
Science & Children, 2008, Vol 45, Issue 6, p15
- ISSN
0036-8148
- Publication type
Article