SkyWatch Astronomy Education visited the Year 3 and Year 5 students on Wednesday 29 June.  We stepped inside the dome, worried if we would all fit!  Students sat inside, waiting eagerly for the viewing to start.  A movie was projected on the dome for us to imagine what it would be like, 60 years from now, looking down from colonisation on the moon.  We saw meteorites, dinosaurs, lightning storms and rapids.

We learnt new terminology (or refreshed our current understanding) of the seasons, earth’s rotation, orbit and eclipses.

When the movie finished, we examined the current southern hemisphere constellations and projected positioning of the planets from our viewpoint.