We have been to the first frontier, and the western gold mines, we have visited China and explored beautiful gardens, so why not fly to the moon. Celebrating with the Apollo 11's 40th Anniversary we are starting our Astronomy week. As always, here are some links that we will be using for crafting, learning, exploring and discovering all about space travel and mans landing on the moon. We are fortunate to have a lot of activity around us dealing with this anniversary, so we will have a lot of activities/field trips as well.
NASA kids club website.
Amazing Space website.
We Choose the Moon real time recreation of the the Apollo 11 landing on the moon.
Glow in the Dark Shirts from Family Fun.
Phases of the moon craft from DLTK.
Outer Space Scenes from That Artist Woman.
Balloon Powered NanoRover activity.
Other activities will include:
glow in the dark moon rocks
space walk (using moon shoes)
eating astronaut food
We have already been watching NASA tv since the current mission launched last week. It is something we have always been interested in, especially my oldest, he loves the wake up calls, and watching the space walks. So it is a natural part of our learning this week to tune in to these incredible images coming from space.
Here is what we added to our bookshelf this week:
Well, we will be back with lots of pics from our crafts and experiences this week. One thing is for certain, this will be a fun filled week with lots of oppotunities to learn about our Space Program, about Space and Astronomy.
looks like so much fun. ive never been a "space" nut but you've got me inspired!
Posted by: michelle | July 19, 2009 at 03:18 PM