Astronomy Night

The kids’ elementary school is a STEM school. That means they focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. So they try to have family nights when they focus on one of those goals. At the end of March, they had an astronomy night where the college science department brought some telescopes and helped with activities that would teach more about astronomy.


It was a really fun night. They first taught us about the telescopes and what we would see. We then went outside to look at the sky. It had been raining so there wasn’t much we could see because of clouds, but the kids got to look at the moon.

We also were able to get in a big air filled bubble thing where we watched a move about Mars and the latest Mars rovers. That was really fun because not only were we in a big bubble thing (I don’t know how to describe it) but we were watching simulations of how the rover landed. It was cool.

The kids wanted to see what the Moon Cookie activity was about and they ended up using Oreo cookies to learn about the phases of the moon. They were taught all about why it is called waning and waxing moons. I learned a lot.  They also were able to make constellations on paper by poking a pin through it. 

Then, of course, we had to watch some of the Bill Nye the Science Guy movie that was showing. There were a lot of people there and it was a fun evening!