Montshire Museum of Science

Earth and Space Day

Museum education staff and special guests will provide a full day of activities for learners of all ages, covering topics from what’s up in tonight’s sky, to activities exploring the large scale process that drive our planet’s systems.

Saturday, January 28, 2012, 10:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.

10:00 a.m.–noon   Stellar Forensics – How do astronomers use telescopes and light to know what stars are made of?

10:30 a.m.   “Everybody Needs a Rock” – Listen to a story about finding rocks before picking out your own to experiment with and take home.  Classroom.

11:00 a.m.   Tonight’s Sky – Find out about the constellations and planets visible tonight. Theater.

11:30 a.m.   Volcanoes – Come and explore the different rocks that volcanoes make from pumice to obsidian. Discovery Lab.

Noon   Meet an Astronomer – Come learn about a day in the life of an astronomer. Theater.

12:30 p.m.   Stream Tables – Families make your own model river and watch it meander, erode, and form islands and deltas! Classroom.

1:00 p.m.   Straw Rockets – Make a miniature air powered rocket. Discovery Lab.

2:00 p.m.   Solar Observation – Check out the sun (and sunspots!) and make a sundial to take home. Classroom.

2:30  p.m.    Rocks! Rocks! – Explore a variety of rocks as we trace their paths along the rock cycle. Discovery Lab.

3:00 p.m.    Air, Water, and Weather – Explore various phenomena of the atmosphere - where space and the earth meet. Dynamic Globe.

3:45 p.m.   Tonight’s Sky – Find out about the constellations and planets visible tonight. Theater.

View Space – Up to date news, research, and satellite images from NASA. Showing in the theater all day except during the above theater programs.

Explore the Dynamic Earth exhibition and earn a "Planet Explorer" prize, meet scientists from Dartmouth, and hike (or snowshoe) the Planet Walk  to Pluto and back.

 

Free with Museum admission

This program is part of The Dynamic Earth, a Montshire project supported with funding from NASA.