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Virtual Night Sky Programs for "Imagine Your Story"

STAR Net
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Join STAR Net and the Lunar and Planetary Institute to hear stories about the constellations and night sky features in view this summer, and learn about ways that YOU can bring these “sky stories” to your patrons for the 2020 Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) summer reading theme, "Imagine Your Story." We will demonstrate how to facilitate virtual programs about constellations and the night sky for your patrons using free, downloadable software (Stellarium) paired with interactive, low-material, at-home activities. Resource List: http://www.starnetlibraries.org/uncat... The material is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under grant No. NNX16AE30A. The work was also assisted and supported by the Space Science Institute, which was the recipient of the grant. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of NASA or the Space Science Institute. ...more
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Intro

0:00

Select all attendees

0:42

Introductions

3:39

Expectations Guidelines

4:40

Resources

5:20

Steam Ahead at Home Initiative

5:53

STEM Activity clearinghouse

7:10

YouTube page

7:43

Poll question

8:22

Interactive Activity

9:34

Sky Heroes Activity

11:04

Stellarium

13:24

Using Stellarium

14:04

Using Annotate

16:04

Finding the North Star

21:24

The Big Dipper

24:04

Hercules

26:14

Scorpion

28:39

Milky Way

39:19

Pinwheel Galaxy

41:14

Discussion QA

44:24

Logistics of facilitating a virtual program

51:34

Strange New Planet

53:04

Stellarium for Linux

53:49

Mobile Apps

54:44
Virtual Night Sky Programs for "Imagine Your Story"
Join STAR Net and the Lunar and Planetary Institute to hear stories about the constellations and night sky features in view this summer, and learn about ways that YOU can bring these “sky stories” to your patrons for the 2020 Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) summer reading theme, "Imagine Your Story." We will demonstrate how to facilitate virtual programs about constellations and the night sky for your patrons using free, downloadable software (Stellarium) paired with interactive, low-material, at-home activities. Resource List: http://www.starnetlibraries.org/uncat... The material is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under grant No. NNX16AE30A. The work was also assisted and supported by the Space Science Institute, which was the recipient of the grant. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of NASA or the Space Science Institute.

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STAR Net

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