Night Sky Study

There's so much to fill a study on the night sky. I decided to break up the ten weeks by studying one planet a week for eight weeks (anyone else still feel weird ignoring poor Pluto?) and then one week for asteroids/meteors and one week on constellations.

We started with one of those giant science fair tri-fold boards, painted it with a mixture of blue and black.

And you can't exactly travel into space without a rocketship, right?

Or an alien hat.

So. With all space exploration necessities in place, we were able to travel to our first planet, Mercury.

Each planet will have a fact sheet to accompany it. After reading through the fact sheet, we answer a few questions about the planet and then both sheets go into our Space Exploration Notebook.