NORT2H Special Program Opportunities: Grades 4-8: Astronomy Day 2009 **FREE**

Friday, April 3, 2009

Grades 4-8: Astronomy Day 2009 FREE

Astronomy Day 2009 with McDonald Observatory!International Year of Astronomy (IYA) Grades 4th - 8th
FREE videoconferences

April 28th, 29th, or 30th9:00-9:50 AM CST10:00-10:50 AM CST1:00-1:50 PM CST2:00-2:50 PM CST

On April 28th, 29th and 30th Education Service Center Region XI host of Connect2Texas and the Frank N. Bash Visitors Center at McDonald Observatory invite students and their teachers to celebrate Astronomy Day and the International Year of Astronomy 2009 during these special interactive videoconference programs.

This year, Astronomy Day from McDonald Observatory means more than ever. 2009 has been declared the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). Worldwide, IYA celebrates 400 years of scientific inquiry and astronomical research from the rudimentary telescope Galileo used, to space based telescopes of our day. We hope that our Astronomy Day videoconferences will excite your students about science and technology.

In our morning videoconferences, students explore Jupiter's moons in a brief activity, make live daytime telescopic observations of the crescent Venus (weather permitting), and have a Q/A period with facilitator Marc Wetzel and McDonald Observatory astronomer Rachel Fuechsl.