Here are some shared Teacher ideas:
"Back when I was still teaching, I made some constellations cards for using on a Lite Brite. I drew the pictures of the various gods the constellations were named for in chalk on black paper and laminated them before punching small holes where the stars go. Then the child can put the clear pegs in the proper places, so it is a little more active than just looking at flash cards. Plus, they twinkle like the real thing ;^)" - Anne Marie
http://www.sfpg.com/animation/litebrite.html
"Here is a cute song..that goes to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle called Song for a New Age:
Burn so brightly gaseous Star
How I ponder what you are
Far beyond where planets lie
Gigantic in the darkened sky
Burn so brightly gaseous Star
How I ponder what you are.
Activity for Milky Way....
Glue and sprinkle white substance on black paper
-or-
white paint, white pencil, white chalk, spatter paint.
Stars....Make an Origami star, make stars out of clay, use the metal inset to make stars.
For math activities...you can replace the spindles in the spindle box with stars.
How about dot to dot constellatios?
What about star replicas used as sets, or odd/even or place on red and blue rods.
Make a sewing card by drawing the constellation on black paper with white pencil, mount on poster/tag board, laminate card, punch holes where the stars would be and add a shoe lace with a bead tied at the end.
Make 3 part cards of the constellations
Word build with movable alphabet
Storywriting
Geoboard stars or constellations
Using construction toys, like tinketoys, etc. build constellations
Make the Big Dipper or other constellations. Used stick on stars and draw lines to show the shape.
String Art Constellations...little nails in a board and use string or rubber bands to show the shape.
Make up a constellation game, by putting the constellations on cards and hand them out at circle/group time. Have the children pass them around while music is played. When the music stops as which child has ______________ (i.e. Big Dipper).
Read Ottie and the Star by Laura Jean Allen (Harper and Row 1979.
Have the children stand to make a constellation.
Make a constellation box. Take a large shoe box and cut a large rectangle out o one end of the box. Take black paper and cut into the rectangles a little larger than a hole in the end of box. Mark dots on paper in shape of the Big Dipper or other constellation. Punch out holes. Attach black paper over rectangular hole in box. Cut hole in other end of box just large enough for the head of a flashlight. Insert flashlight. darken room, turn on flashlight. See constellation.
Lay out constellation on fabric with cardboard of clay or cardboard stars. Use control card.
Make a rubbing using sandpaper circles or tacks in board and rub with crayon over paper.
Have child create own constellation by taking a felt mat and cut out stars.
Make toothpick constellations
Phases of the Moon..
I make a poster/tag board card out of black measuring 4" x 11. Using white address labels on the right hand side I put a row top to bottom of the 8 phases and write the phases in...on the left hand side next to the label I put one of those almost 1" white adhesive dots and use a black permanent marker to color in the moon dot for each of the phases. This is the control card. The child can make their own." " - Karen (a teacher who has just wonderful ideas!)
"you could take the star maps of your areas (seasonal) and label them for control, then make a set of pin maps of them for the student to do.
take this up a notch and use glow in the dark paint to make the stars glow, child could label them" - Angi
"For Planets we sang "Puff the Magic Dragon" with new words:
Mercry, venus, Earth, (Puff the magic dragon)
Mars, Jupiter (lived by the sea)
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (get the idea?)
and Pluto way out far!
These are all the planets,revolving around the sun,blah blah blah (sorry! Can't remember this line...make up your own?) and having so much fun!
National Air and Space Museum website. They have a song called "Family of the Sun", sung to the Farmer in the Dell http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/etp/ss/ss_fots.html
"Back when I was still teaching, I made some constellations cards for using on a Lite Brite. I drew the pictures of the various gods the constellations were named for in chalk on black paper and laminated them before punching small holes where the stars go. Then the child can put the clear pegs in the proper places, so it is a little more active than just looking at flash cards. Plus, they twinkle like the real thing ;^)" - Anne Marie
http://www.sfpg.com/animation/litebrite.html
"Here is a cute song..that goes to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle called Song for a New Age:
Burn so brightly gaseous Star
How I ponder what you are
Far beyond where planets lie
Gigantic in the darkened sky
Burn so brightly gaseous Star
How I ponder what you are.
Activity for Milky Way....
Glue and sprinkle white substance on black paper
-or-
white paint, white pencil, white chalk, spatter paint.
Stars....Make an Origami star, make stars out of clay, use the metal inset to make stars.
For math activities...you can replace the spindles in the spindle box with stars.
How about dot to dot constellatios?
What about star replicas used as sets, or odd/even or place on red and blue rods.
Make a sewing card by drawing the constellation on black paper with white pencil, mount on poster/tag board, laminate card, punch holes where the stars would be and add a shoe lace with a bead tied at the end.
Make 3 part cards of the constellations
Word build with movable alphabet
Storywriting
Geoboard stars or constellations
Using construction toys, like tinketoys, etc. build constellations
Make the Big Dipper or other constellations. Used stick on stars and draw lines to show the shape.
String Art Constellations...little nails in a board and use string or rubber bands to show the shape.
Make up a constellation game, by putting the constellations on cards and hand them out at circle/group time. Have the children pass them around while music is played. When the music stops as which child has ______________ (i.e. Big Dipper).
Read Ottie and the Star by Laura Jean Allen (Harper and Row 1979.
Have the children stand to make a constellation.
Make a constellation box. Take a large shoe box and cut a large rectangle out o one end of the box. Take black paper and cut into the rectangles a little larger than a hole in the end of box. Mark dots on paper in shape of the Big Dipper or other constellation. Punch out holes. Attach black paper over rectangular hole in box. Cut hole in other end of box just large enough for the head of a flashlight. Insert flashlight. darken room, turn on flashlight. See constellation.
Lay out constellation on fabric with cardboard of clay or cardboard stars. Use control card.
Make a rubbing using sandpaper circles or tacks in board and rub with crayon over paper.
Have child create own constellation by taking a felt mat and cut out stars.
Make toothpick constellations
Phases of the Moon..
I make a poster/tag board card out of black measuring 4" x 11. Using white address labels on the right hand side I put a row top to bottom of the 8 phases and write the phases in...on the left hand side next to the label I put one of those almost 1" white adhesive dots and use a black permanent marker to color in the moon dot for each of the phases. This is the control card. The child can make their own." " - Karen (a teacher who has just wonderful ideas!)
"you could take the star maps of your areas (seasonal) and label them for control, then make a set of pin maps of them for the student to do.
take this up a notch and use glow in the dark paint to make the stars glow, child could label them" - Angi
"For Planets we sang "Puff the Magic Dragon" with new words:
Mercry, venus, Earth, (Puff the magic dragon)
Mars, Jupiter (lived by the sea)
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (get the idea?)
and Pluto way out far!
These are all the planets,revolving around the sun,blah blah blah (sorry! Can't remember this line...make up your own?) and having so much fun!
National Air and Space Museum website. They have a song called "Family of the Sun", sung to the Farmer in the Dell http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/etp/ss/ss_fots.html
