5th Grade Field Trip by Ava

Our trip to the Planetarium was fun! We got to observe MARS and what was on it, and we got to go to the STAR SHOW and the MAKERSPACE.  My personal favorite was the STAR SHOW, because it was SO in-depth, and I thought that it was very cool. The Planetarium is basically connected to the Science Center. When we got off of the bus, I was paired with my friend Ollie. So we got to stick together the whole time! We headed up to the MAKERSPACE first, and it was so cool! There was a build-your-own-ship station, there was a test gravity station where you place the sphere a little tube, you pull a lever, it floats, and then you can try to make ithrough a little hoop. Next to that, there was a MARS exhibit. It included a wheel, with sand. It was basically like a stamp,with a ‘redo’ button.

Next was the second part to the MARS exhibit. There was a REAL ROVER! You could control it, and it was super cool! Then, everybody in the grade went to the star show. I was 15 minutes late (Ask me why…) and then I went to the star show. When I walked into the pitch black room, I could literally not see ANYTHING! So instead of the mats that were sprawled out across the floor,  I Just sat down on the ground. After the Star Show was over, we were dismissed to go check out little space things, in a room behind us. I found my friends, and then we checked it out together.

5th Grade Planetarium Field Trip

5th Grade Planetarium Field Trip

   

Today (leap year 2016) we went to the planetarium and saw stars and exhibits. We were required to either make a blog post or a trivia with 5 questions. I chose to make a blog post. During the show we learned about Orion,Ursa Major, and Ursa Minor. We also learned about the difference between a star and a planet in the sky, stars twinkle and planets are just kind of dull. Also we learned that when you look at mars in the sky at about 6:00 am it always appears red; And we learned about how to find polaris or the north star using Ursa major(big dipper).Before the show we were doing sailboat racing and torturing the teachers on the bridge by standing and jumping on top of the glass windows. Riley C. managed to get satellite rover things to stick its arm out.

Planetarium

The Planetarium was awesome. We watched the stars and the Constellations. It turns out that there is a dragon, big and little bear Constellation and a dog Constellation! I even saw Mars! I also controlled a land rover on (fake) Mars! I can't wait to go back to the Planetarium! 

Today we went to the science center and planetarium. We saw: the maker space where we made cool experiments,a mars exhibit where we saw and programed an actual rover, the planetarium where we saw cool constellations on a slide show in a place similar to the imax, and a ton of other cool things.  

Planets

Our Solar System by Claudia and Charlie

      Mrs.Barnes' class is learning about the Solar System. We haven't only been learning about the planets, we've also been learning about moons, asteroids, and comets. We started learning about our Solar System on Thursday, September 10th 2015.

        We learned about it by using flash cards. We arranged them in groups and learned about the order of the planets and the distances of them from the sun. Some of us renamed the planets and moons to be silly. We did this to learn more about the Milky Way. Did you know that the sun's core is 27 million degrees Fahrenheit? Feel free to search our blog for more awesome entries!