Star Studded Lesson

Today's topic at summer school was stars and constellations. The kids participated in a few creative thinking activities. First they had to figure out a way they could measure the size of a star. They came up with all sorts of creative answers and gadgets. Then we read about several constellations. They were amazing(as was I) that ancient cultures, thousands of miles away from each other and assumably had no contact, saw the same shapes in the stars many times. The kids made their own constellations out of marshmallows. Then I gave each child a glow bracelet. We turned the lights off and each student had to figure out how to coordinate their friends to represent their constellation in the dark.