Stars, Space & our Solar SystemWestmeade Elementary School

Karen McIntyre, Librarian

• Questions to stimulate in Session 1--• What is a Star?• How did telescopes help Galileo looking

at the universe?• What can we see with telescopes today?• How did the solar system form?• What are planets?• What are moons?

Have you ever made cloud pictures?

You can find these in the night sky?

The people who created the constellations thought the Earth was the center of the universe.

Pictures from Deep Space

• Stars make up the constellations.• Our sun is a _s_______!• Stars are made of __g________.• The are huge and they _b_________

giving off light.

Our Sun’s family of planets

• Is the S_________ System!

Help me remember the order of the planets….• My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nachos!

• Mercury• Venus• Earth• Mars• Jupiter• Saturn• Uranus• Nepture

Galileo (1564-1642 )

Galileo’s telescope

How did we learn about the sky?

• Galileo’s T________ was invented 400 years ago. Here is Jupiter as Galileo saw it!

Hubble telescope

Words we know….

• Orbit• Rotate• Revolve