Starlab Curriculum at a Glance

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Starlab Curriculum at a Glance

• Baltimore County Public Schools
• Office of Science, PreK-12

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Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Starlab is a highly effective way to integrate
  Maryland Voluntary State curriculum science
  skills and process indicators into the BCPS
  curriculum.

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Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Starlab can also be used to teach specific
  Maryland Voluntary State Curriculum science and
  earth/space science indicators.

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Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Students will
• Identify and describe the stars.
• Make use of models to interpret data.
• Explain that a model suggests how the thing
  modeled works.

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Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Describe patterns and cycles in the environment.
• Learn information from models.
• Learn how tools such as telescopes can be
  utilized to collect data.

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Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Realize that people from ancient times also
  investigated the world around them.
• Discover the repeating pattern of celestial
  events such as the moon phases, day/night, and
  the seasons.
• Explore the sun and its properties, location, and
  movements.

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Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Analyze the relationship between the sun and
  other celestial objects such as planets,
  asteroids, comets, and meteors.

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Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Starlab also compares and contrasts the
• different mythologies about the
• constellations.

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Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Starlab can be used to teach
• the 88 basic constellations

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Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Greek and Roman mythology

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Starlab Portable Planetarium

• African mythology

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Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Native American mythology

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Starlab Portable Planetarium

• The following astronomy concepts will be
  addressed during each grade level Starlab
  presentation

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Pre-Kindergarten/Kindergarten Starlab
Presentations
Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Searching the Daytime and Nighttime Sky
• Introduction to planetariums
• Introduction to Celestial Objects
• Constellations

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1st grade Starlab Presentations
Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Our Star, the Sun
• The Sun properties compared to other stars
• Constellations

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2nd Grade Starlab Presentations
Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Mission to the Moon
• Phases of the Moon
• Apollo missions to the Moon
• Stars
• Constellations

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Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Intermediate students also investigate the night
  sky by collecting data like real astronomers with
  clipboards and light-up pens.

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3rd Grade Starlab Presentations
Starlab Portable Planetarium

• STAR SEARCH
• Exploring the Properties of Stars
• The color/temperature of stars
• The magnitude/brightness of stars
• Constellations

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4th Grade Starlab Presentations
Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Solar System Creature Feature Detectives
• Comparison of planets, stars, constellations
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• Follow the Drinking Gourd
• How the slaves used the Little Dipper for
  navigation during the Civil War

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5th Grade Starlab Presentations
Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Our Galactic Place in Space
• Milky Way galaxy, other galaxies, nebulas,
  classification of galaxies, constellations

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Starlab Portable Planetarium

• Starlab creates a unique learning environment for
  all elementary students from PreK-5th grade.