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Astronomy Unit: Inner and Outer Planets, The Asteroid Belt
We seem to talk about the planets about once a year, don’t we? This time we did a little activity that showed the four inner, rocky planets, the asteroid belt and the four outer planets, the gas...
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Astronomy Unit: The Moon (Day 1)
The moon is very far away (225,622 miles to 252,088 miles depending on its position in its elliptical orbit around the Earth). NASA had to be very careful about the calculations they made to send...
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Astronomy Unit: The Moon (Day 2)
On this day we read about the Moon and did the lapbook components to add to our science notebook. What’s perfect about these lapbooks for us right now is the writing is not overwhelming and...
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Phases of the Moon Activity: Homemade Oreo Cookie Recipe (Yum!!)
We had a lot of fun with this part of our astronomy unit.We talked about the phases of the moon. We started off with a lamp and held an egg in our hand. Then we moved the egg slowly around, watching...
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The Space Shuttle Blasts by our House!
We were outside this morning on the lookout for the Space Shuttle Discovery. We were so excited to have it fly by at tree-line! Naturally we had to take a million pictures as it flew by! A little...
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First Commercial Spacecraft Docks at the Space Station
We got really interested in the future of space exploration when the space shuttle Discovery flew by our house back in April. I dedicated a couple of blog posts to it because the kids and I were so...
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Learn All About Mars, “Curiosity” is Landing Soon!
We have started getting excited about the Mars Space Laboratory, Curiosity which has been enroute to Mars for about eight months now. We started doing some activities to learn about Mars. I wanted to...
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Don’t forget the Mars Rover, Curiosity is About to Land!
Curiosity is scheduled to arrive on Mars late Sunday night (10:31 PST, Aug 5) or early Monday (1:31am EST, Aug. 6) depending on where you live. View it live at NASA TV. The Mars Science Laboratory...
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Curiosity Landed Safely on Mars!
I’m adding this to the top of the post a day or so later. If you are interested in seeing the images being sent back from Mars, you can go to the NASA image gallery. Look for the small caption that...
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Honoring the Mars Exploration Team and How You Personally Have Benefited from...
Later today, the mission team for NASA’s long-lived Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity will be awarded the Haley Space Flight Award. Mars Exploration Rover Project Manager, John Callas,...
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