Workshop: Know your Sky! StarryTelling for Teachers K-8

Event Date: 
July 20, 2008
Start Time: 
2:00 pm
End Time: 
5:00 pm
Location: 
St. Paul's Church Auditorium

Find the Galileo in your students.  This workshop gives you the astronomy concepts and the hands on tools you can easily take back to the classroom.  Get your students excited about their personal discovery of the sky, the solar system and the stars.  Learn the night sky, constellations and visible planets while sitting in an inflatable planetarium.  Have fun!

Instruction fee:  $75

Name of Performer: 
John Meader
Performer Description: 

John, a StarLab entrepreneur, is a planetarium educator, registered Maine guide and author.  He thrills thousands of children annually with his inflatable planetarium and his stories about the stars as well as about nature and canoeing.  A major contributor of articles to the International Planetarium Society, John is also an historian of the Middle Atlantic Planetarium.  The owner of Northern Stars Planetarium and Educations Services, John is traveling all the way from Maine with his StarLab to entrance you.