Things are Looking up at the
GPISD Planetarium

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3RD GRADE PROGRAM
Title:        The Sun and the Four Seasons

During your visit to the planetarium, your students will be actively involved in the following learning:

  • Identify each of the nine planets in relation to the sun (distance from the sun)
  • Discuss the Sun and its relationship to other planetary objects/size
  • Explore why we have the changes in the seasons, the time of the year that these take place, and the importance of the sun's path as it moves across the sky

   4th GRADE PROGRAM
Title:        Above and Beyond

During your visit to the planetarium,  your students will be actively involved in the following learning:

  • By learning how to locate the Big Dipper and how it can help us find our directions
  • By investigating the brightness of different stars and discovering what causes a star's color
  • By discussing and locating famous constellations, and seeing how they can be used to guide us to other interesting objects in the night sky
  • Discover the major attributes of the planets

 5TH GRADE PROGRAM
Title:        The Motions of the Sky

During your visit to the planetarium, your students will be actively involved in the following learning: 
 

  • Discover the physical characteristics of the moon
  • Explore how the phases of the moon occur
  • How the sun and the moon interact to give us solar and lunar eclipses
  • How the path of the sun across the sky and how that path and tilt of the earth create different seasons