Planetarium Programs
Length: 45 minutes
Group Size: up to 32
Single-Show Price: $150
Length: 30 minutes
Group Size: up to 32
Half-Day Price: $550
Full-Day Price: $850
Requires a 20 foot by 20 foot quiet area with 12-foot ceilings and a minimum of two 110V power plugs.
One World, One Sky
Recommended for: Kindergarten
Students explore the night sky with Big Bird, Elmo, and Hu Hu Zhu, a new friend from China. This full-dome video from Sesame Street and the National Science Foundation shows students how to find the Big Dipper and North Star, as well as taking them on an imagination-fueled trip to the moon.
ESS K.3.1 Patterns are observed when measuring the local weather, including how humans and other organisms impact their environment.
Patterns in the Night Sky: The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars
Recommended for: 1st Grade
ESS 1.3.1 Patterns of movement of the sun, moon and stars as seen from Earth can be observed, described, and predicted.
The Changing Shape of the Earth, Moon, and Planets
Recommended for: 2nd Grade
ESS 3.2.2: Wind and water can change the shape of the land. The resulting landforms, together with the materials on the land, provide homes for living things.
Weather & Climate: Going to Space To Learn About Earth and its Neighbor
Recommended For: 3rd Grade
Students learn how satellites help scientists study and predict the weather, the relationship between weather and climate and the factors that influence them, and how Earth’s weather and climate compare to other planets.
ESS 3.3.1 Climate describes patterns of typical weather conditions over different scales and variations; historical weather patterns can be analyzed.ESS 3.3.2 2. A variety of weather hazards result from natural process; humans cannot eliminate weather-related hazards but can reduce their impacts.
Electromagnetic Radiation: The Light in Space
Recommended for: 4th Grade
While exploring the night sky and planets in our solar system, students learn about light-creating and light-reflecting bodies; why some objects are brighter than others; and how we know so much about stars even though we have never been to any of them!
PS 1.6.1: Students can answer the questions: What is light? How can one explain the varied effects that involve light? What other forms of electromagnetic radiation are there? PS 1.6.2: Electromagnetic Radiation: An object can be seen when light reflected from its surface enters the eyes. PS 1.7.1: Students can answer the question: How are instruments that transmit and detect waves used to extend human senses?.
Patterns and Hypothesis: Science is Just Patterns
Recommended for: 5th grade
Students begin with a discussion on the scientific method and how that applies to the patterns in the night sky. After a brief tour of the nighttime sky, students learn about how to navigate the night sky using grids. Finally, students launch into the universe itself to realize the magnitude of its size.
ESS 3.2.1: Students can answer the question: What are the predictable patterns caused by Earth’s movement in the solar system EES: 3.1.1: Scale, Proportion and Quantity: Natural objects exist from the very small to the immensely large.G 4.5.1: Use the first quadrant of the coordinate plane to represent real-world and mathematical problems.G 4.5.4: Use the first quadrant of the coordinate plane as a tool to represent, analyze, and solve problems.
The Physics of Our Planet and Solar System
Recommended for: Middle School
From motion and gravity to weather and climate, students learn about a range of Earth and space science concepts while exploring the night sky, viewing Earth from space, and venturing out into the solar system.
ESS MS.3.1 Motion is predictable in both solar systems and galaxies. ESS MS.3.2 The solar system contains many varied objects held together by gravity. Solar system models explain and predict eclipses, lunar phases, and seasons.