Hands-On Astronomy Activities
From Project ASTROˆÙ and the resource notebook series The Universe at Your Fingertips:
From Universe in the Classroom:
- A Grapefruit Saturn
- Making a Rainbow
- Remember the Egg!
- Astronomy in the Marketplace
- Faintest Stars and Light Pollution
- Finding and Measuring Delta Cephei
- Here it Comes, There It Goes: A Doppler Ball
- Impact Cratering
- Name that Angle
- Scale Model of a Black Hole
- How High Up is Space?
From Family ASTRO:
- Constellation Detective
- Constellation Cookies
- Crash Landing!
- Toilet Paper Solar System
- Translating an Alien Message
- Flag for Your Planet
Night Sky Network Astronomy Activities & Resources
- The Tilt of Mercury’s Orbit (pdf file) (Word document)
- Virtual Venus
- Birthday Stars
- Exploring Lunar Phases with a Daytime Moon
- In the Footsteps of Galileo: Observing the Moons of Jupiter
- Pocket Solar System
- Red Hot, Blue Hot: Mapping the Infrared