My Wild Homeschool

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

day at the planetarium

We decided to visit the planetarium this past weekend. It was a grand re-opening, the planetarium having now doubled in size from what it was last time we visited. Unfortunately my camera was acting even worse than ever so I got no pictures of the kids pretending to be weather forecasters on tv, the science experiment show about light spectrum's and many of the other fun things we did. I managed to get a few posed pictures here and there but spontaneity was not something my camera could cope with this day.

Space shuttle. We saw a show about this, strange to think that the shuttles will be retired in a year.


Way back in time for space travel.


Colin is in charge of the universe oh no!!!

That ball could be changed to represent any planet or a variety of earth views. There was a cool music and science room too and we watched a movie called Ice Worlds in the planetarium. We learned about constellations here and also at the north and south pole. The show itself was on the planetariums round dome ceiling and it was wonderful! We love learning about the cold poles so getting to see this show was excellent.

Outside the planetarium is this rocket which had just been placed there a few days ago!

4 comments:

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

Way cool!

berrypatch said...

Is this the Christa MacAullife (if that's how you spell it) one? I've been thinking of getting a reciprocal membership to a children's museum in Bangor & it includes that one in NH too. Hmmm.....

Wild Homeschool Family said...

Yes it is, although now it's called the Macaullife/Shepherd planetarium. It was a fun day and I don't think we got to everything. It used to be you could see the whole place in an hour. Of course it used to be free and now there's an admission price, LOL. Certainly not as big as museums in say Boston but I thought it was a good day out. If you end up going there let me know and maybe we can meet up!

Cynthia said...

Love the field trip! We'd really like to visit a planetarium sometime.