Stars Activities
Explore the stars with these hands-on activities!
There are billions of stars in our universe. For thousands of years, people have looked up at the night sky, marveled at what they saw, and told stories about the patterns they see. Discover more about constellations, learn how to identify stars in the sky, and make a tool to calculate the angle of stars above the horizon.
Activities
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- Alaska Flag Ornament: Explore how stars connect to history and culture by making an Alaska flag ornament.
- Astrolabe: An astrolabe is a tool to calculate the height of objects or the angle of stars above the horizon. Make a simple astrolabe and practice using angles to measure height.
- Constellations of Alaska: Learn the constellations you can see in the night sky of Alaska with this booklet. In your printer settings, choose the Booklet option, and print on both sides.
- Cultural Star Knowledge Booklet: Make a booklet about star knowledge around the world, and write your own stories! Download the story sheets here.
- Stars in a Sensory Bottle: For young children, make a sensory bottle to explore stars.
- Star Wheel: Make a sky map and learn to identify constellations.
- Tracing Constellations: Connect the dots to form pictures in the stars.
- Starry Sky Projector: Enjoy watching starry lights with a homemade projector!
- Where Are the Distant Worlds? (Courtesy of Night Sky Network): Use a star map to identify stars with exoplanets.
A winter night sky view at Wonder Lake, Denali National Park.
Photo by Jacob Frank, National Park Service.
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This project was funded under NASA cooperative agreement NNX16AL65A and cooperative agreement number NNH15ZDA004C. 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 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.