I hope to use Stellarium with my second class next year in order to help them to identify planets and basic constellations and to understand the movements of the night sky. I will begin ny asking my class if they have ever looked at the night sky and ask them what they have noticed/seen – and explain to them that we are going to use a program called Stellarium to help them to understand the night sky. I will instruct them in how to use controls and toolbar to search for well known constellations and we sill examine the difference between how stars and planets look and move in the sky. we will ‘time-travel’ by changing the date and time to help them to understand that the night sky changes over time. After using tellurium we will use stickers and charts so that the children can create their own constellations. I am looking forward to getting started with this!
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