Grade Level 5 PV Follow-Up

Sandburg Center for Sky Awareness
A Fairfax County Public Schools Planetarium

Grade Level 5 Planetarium Visit Follow-Up

After a visit to the Sandburg Planetarium to see the FCPS Grade Level 5 Planetarium Program Stars and Constellations, the following online instructional resources may be used to either reinforce understanding or extend/enrich your classroom-based astronomy unit.

SANDBURG CENTER FOR SKY AWARENESS WEB PAGES

Sandburg Planetarium Grade 5 Program Agenda (including a link to the lyrics of Galaxy Song)
SCSA Constellation of the Month
Constellation Pictionary®, the game of quick draw constellation pattern recognition (good for pre-planetarium visit preparation and/or post-planetarium visit reinforcement or assessment)
Challenging Math P.O.D.s (Problem of the Day):
1. How Far is a Light-Year? (Teacher's Answer Key available upon request.)
2. At a distance of 2 million light-years, the Andromeda Galaxy is the most distant object which can be seen with the unaided eye. Calculate the distance (in miles) to the Andromeda Galaxy.
Grade Level 5 Internet Information Resources - an annotated "Best of the Web" listing of resources related to the FCPS Grade Level 5 astronomy unit
Astronomy in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Region, including a hyperlink to Astronomy in the Nation's Capital, excerpts from an article which appeared in the October 1997 issue of Astronomy magazine.
SCSA What's Up? Web page, providing pointers to several of the better online sky guides
SCSA Special Events Web Page
SCSA Website of the Week (WoW!)

OFF-SITE WEB RESOURCES

Skymaps.com - free monthly star maps, available in Adobe Acrobat PDF
StarDate Online resources: Constellation Guide; Star Guide; Galaxy Guide; AstroGlossary
Stars Web site, including "Star of the Week"
NASA Observatorium Stellar Evolution & Death

Please let me know if you need more information to support either astronomy- or meteorology-related instruction--as a resource teacher, I can be, well, resourceful!

Sunny Days & Starry Nights!
Walter Sanford, Teacher
Sandburg Planetarium
E-mail: Walter.Sanford@fcps.edu