The Usual Suspects

 

Three of us from the astronomy club volunteered to spend part of the day at the planetarium for their "Astronomy Day."  Because it was raining we were all indoors.  Our two tables were part of a collection of tables with different astronomy activities.  The event was for families, most of them with younger children who enjoyed demonstrations of how craters were formed on the moon, and of how to make galaxies with paint on a spinning on a disk, and how to make a little paper rocket that could be launched with a soda straw!  There was so much energy in the room as we explained how telescopes worked and one member showed how the Moon has phases and gave the children a quiz on the planets.  What was fun was many of the children already knew the names of the planets!  It was a great day!