Feeling Spacey

The elementary students continued their study of space in science class this past Friday.



Plastic cups, spray painted black on the inside, became constellation viewers.





A star is born, as Ms. Pat demonstrates burning magnesium.



As a fun activity at the end of class, the children went out to the playground, where hammocks and a plastic tarp had been hung from the dome-climber. The idea was that they were setting up a space colony and this was the bio-dome they would be living in.