"I would rather be a meteor,
every atom of me in magnificent glow
Than a sleepy and permanent planet."
- Jack London (1876-1916)
Visit the Sandburg Sky Poetry Web
page, including CSMS student-authored sky poems.
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Sandburg Center for Sky Awareness
A Fairfax County Public Schools Planetarium
What's New?
04 May 2001
Published Sandburg Sun-Earth-Moon
Day 2001, a special report highlighting Sandburg Planetarium's
local celebration of National Sky Awareness Week and Astronomy Week/Day.
13 February 2001
Published "Explorers" Explore
Exploration, a special report highlighting one outcome of an
ongoing partnership between the Explorers Club Washington Group and
Sandburg MS.
29 July 2000
Unveiled prototype of SCSA "State of Sky" (SOS) information kiosk.
18 July 2000
Upgraded Internet connectivity to T1. From fast Internet connections, Web
users should see noticeable improvement in access times for SCSA products
and services.
23 May 2000
Published The Year in Review - A Special
Report Highlighting the Activities of the Sandburg Center for Sky
Awareness for 1999-2000.
21 April 2000
18 April 2000
16 April 2000
Constellation Pictionary® added
to the suite of activities which support Stars and Constellations,
the FCPS Grade Level 5 astronomy unit.
15 April 2000
Added extensive revisions to the Zodiac Web
page, including hyperlinks to associated mythology.
15 March 2000
Added "The Best of Team 4" to the CSMS Seventh Grade English Class Student-Authored Sky Poetry Web page. Scroll
down to 1999-2000 Sky Poems.
18 January 2000
The Sandburg Center for Sky Awareness is pleased to announce that The
Unofficial Student Activity for Bob Ryan's 2000 Almanac & Guide for the
Weatherwise is now online.
A "scavenger hunt" in which students use a weather almanac to search for
the answers to weather-related questions, the activity is a great way to
teach weather & climate (and of course, astronomy) as well as applied
mathematics (don't worry, the math is fairly simple!) plus there are a few
interdisciplinary questions related to Language Arts and Social Studies.
The activity has been used with great success by many teachers who have
touched base to let me know how their students "really got into it!"
All you need is a class set of almanacs [minimum 15 copies (one for every
two students)] and photocopies of the activity (use your Web browser to
print a photocopy master). Almanacs are available at Giant Food stores
[$1.49 each (all monies donated to local charity)]. For younger students,
you may want to divide the activity into smaller sections (to avoid
overwhelming them!). A teacher's answer key is available upon request.
03 January 2000
Added "The Best of Team 3" to the CSMS Seventh Grade English Class Student-Authored Sky Poetry Web page. Scroll
down to 1999-2000 Sky Poems.
05 December 1999
Snowflakes - A Thematic Approach provides
K-12 teachers with a flurry of ideas for using snow to deliver interesting
and exciting interdisciplinary instruction perfect for the holiday season
(despite recent above average temperatures!). Happy Holidays from the
Sandburg Center for Sky Awareness!
01 December 1999
In addition to weekly updates of the WoW! Web page
(hey, it's called "Website of the Week" for a reason!), we just added a
bunch of new stuff to the Special Events
Web page.
14 November 1999
08 November 1999
Added links from the Themes for
1999-2000 Web page to "Today's sunspot number" and real-time sunspot
imagery; added links from the What's Up in the
Sky?" Web page to a variety of data regarding the Sun and Moon.
26 October 1999
17 October 1999
Added November Constellation of the Month,
featuring Andromeda the Chained Princess, Cassiopeia the Queen, and Pisces
the Fish.
04 October 1999
01 October 1999
25 September 1999
13 September 1999
03 September 1999
30 August 1999
24 August 1999
28 July 1999
12 June 1999
Added Item Analysis - '98-99
Grade Level 4, 5, and 8 Planetarium Program Evaluation Teacher Surveys.
Teachers, thanks for your feedback!
18 May 1999
Added New Links related to the upcoming 30th
anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
20 March 1999
Added Item Analysis - '98-99 Grade Level 4, 5
and 8 Planetarium Visit Exit Surveys. Very impressive results!
19 February 1999
06 February 1999
01 January 1999
23 December 1998
21 December 1998
06 December 1998
02 December 1998
18 November 1998
30 October 1998
Added Astronomy BINGO! activity for Grade Levels Four, Five, and Eight, and Teacher's Answer Keys for
several site visit activities.
24 October 1998
Updated the Special Events page to
include information about the first freeze of the Fall season.
19 October 1998
20 July 1998
09 June 1998
Added link to Science Internet
Links, (excerpted from the Multimedia Resource Guide for Fairfax
County Public Schools Elementary Science Program, 1997-98)
21 May 1998
8 May 1998
7 May 1998
Added Windows on Science, Earth Science, Volume II videodisc correlations with FCPS elementary astronomy
units for Grade Level 4 & 5.
25 April 1998
Rolled out "new look" for SCSA Web site.
17 April 1998
7 April 1998
2 April 1998
- Added What's New? page - listing additions/revisions to
Sandburg Center for Sky Awareness Web site
- Added What's Up? page - providing
pointers to online sky guides
1 April 1998
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Meteorological Society DataStreme Project
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