Thursday, June 18, 2009

Little Explorers

Today I took Juliette and her friends (Eden and Avi) to the Discovery Center for the Little Explorers program. Its a forty-five minute class designed for preschool-aged children. During that time they make projects related to space that they are able to take home with them. Unfortunately, the class only occurs once a month.

This months project was about the moon. They glued a picture of the moon on cardboard paper then used black and white clay to outline the volcanic ash areas on the moon (black areas).

The children volunteered to be planets and moons to demonstrate how the earth revolves around the sun and how the moon revolves around the earth while revolving around the sun. Did you get that? It was cute and Juliette loved it!

Virtual tour of where astronaunts live while they are in space; includes living quarters, medical laboratory, green house, space ship, etc.

Build your own space craft and then make it go using motors.

We decided to get one last picture outside with the life-size rocket.

And here they are upclose with their moon projects.

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