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Where can you find Leo the lion? How can you bring a constellation into your room? What are the oldest stars? How did the Milky Way Galaxy get its name? Now you can explore the answers to these and other questions in Janice VanCleave's Constellations for Every Kid. Find the constellations Draco, Libra, Hydra, Hercules, and many more from your own backyard. Make a star disk that can track star movements. Find out what a balloon can tell us about stars. With activities like making an astronomer's flashlight and a shoebox planetarium, Janice VanCleave's Constellations for Every Kid will have you reaching for the stars.
Format: Soft Cover, 256 pages, 6 X 9 inches
Author: Janice VanCleave
Publisher: Wiley Publishers
Date Published: July, 1997
Recommended Ages: Children-Young Adult
Each of the activities begins with a statement of purpose, followed by a list of materials, step-by-step instructions, expected results, and an easy-to-understand explanation. Every activity has been pretested and can be performed safely and inexpensively at home or in the classroom.
Partial Table of Contents:
- Night Lights: Examining the Lights in the Nighttime Sky.
- Changing Sky: Determining Visible Constellations at Different Locations.
- Around and Around: Locating Northern Circumpolar Constellations.
- The Queen: Locating the Constellation Cassiopeia.
- The King: Locating the Constellation Cepheus.
- Sun Path: Locating the Zodiac Constellations.
- The Teapot: Locating the Constellation Sagittarius.
- Summertime Patterns: Locating the Summer Constellations.
- The Kneeler: Locating the Constellation Hercules.
- Autumn Patterns: Locating the Autumn Constellations.
- The Hero: Exploring the Constellation Perseus.
- Wintertime Patterns: Locating the Winter Constellations.
- The Hunter: Locating the Constellation Orion.
- Appendices.
- Glossary.
- Index.
Presenting beginner astronomy books for kids. These colorful books introduce kids to beginner astronomy charts and pictures of our solar system. |
