The Museum School was one of the first museum preschools accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
ASTRONOMY ON WHEELS
MOBILE NOBLE PLANETARIUM: BRINGING THE UNIVERSE TO YOU!
Bring the universe to your classroom through the Museum’s Mobile Noble Planetarium. Our planetarium staff will interact with your students to provide a grade-appropriate look at the current sky, with plenty of time for questions from your students and hands-on activities. Travel through space and unleash your student’s imagination!
FAST FACTS
Programs available: January 10, 2011
To Book: Contact Group Services at 817-255-9409 or slittler@fwmsh.org
Minimum: 3 hours per day
Maximum: 5 hours per day
Fee: $375.00 for minimum plus $125 per hour up to 5 hours plus small travel fee.
Travel NOT limited to Tarrant County!
Number of students per session: Varies with grade level
Show Lengths: Vary with age from 20 minutes to 50 minutes, depending on student age
Take Me To The Stars:
Grades: K-12
25 to 35 student maximum
Adapted to your grade level to present the beautiful constellations available in the night sky at the time of your visit. Our staff can’t wait to tell the stories that have come to us from prior civilizations still sparking imaginations today! Special astronomy events at the time of your visit will also be covered.
This Is Your Captain
Grades: K-2
35 student maximum
Take a journey with our captain through the planets, sun, moons, rings, asteroids that make up our incredible solar system!
Sun-Earth-Moon Connections
Grades: 3-7
30 student maximum
Seasons, lunar rotation and phases, the sun and solar phenomena, auroras, gravity, comparative sizes and distances of objects in our solar system, meteorites, and all the important elements of earth and its closest neighbors will be presented to your students.
Two Small Pieces of Glass
Grades: 9-12
25 student maximum
Celebrate 400 years of using the telescope. Students will learn how this wonderful instrument has helped us understand our place in space.
IBEX: Search for the Edge of the Solar System
Grade Level: 9-12
25 student maximum
Launched in 2008, this mission is providing amazing data about the dynamics of the outer heliosphere, where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space. This special boundary shields Earth from most galactic cosmic ray radiation. IBEX’s data has provided the data for an amazing sky map of our solar system.
