Traveling Galaxy Show

Forget about transportation costs, permission slips, and organizational headaches. We come to you for a fraction of the cost of a traditional field trip,

Our new 19-foot inflatable portable digital dome planetarium holds 35-40 students, perfect for individualized teaching and lively discussions. Led by an experienced instructor, your students will travel through the solar system, underwater, or even inside a human cell – all without leaving the school building!

This is a valuable adjunct to the classroom experience which can be extended with our lesson plans and classroom activities.

You can select from the following programs, or we can customize a show to meet your needs. All curriculum is matched to national and state science education standards.

Meet The Stars

Treat your kindergarten students to a science lesson in the stars! Students will use interactive activities to learn about the Sun, planets, stars and moon. (K-2)

Are The Stars Out Tonight?

Students are introduced to the concepts of day and night, plus how the rotation causes this effect on Earth. While exploring the day and night sky, students will learn about the Sun, planets, stars and moon, and be able to locate them in the planetarium sky. (K-2)

Name That Constellation

This show illustrates how the rotation and revolution of the Earth cause stars and constellations to change position in the night sky. Students will learn to find directions using the Sun and the stars. While exploring the night sky, students will find and identify seasonal constellations. (K-2)

Telling Time With The Stars

Take your students on a journey through the night sky. Students will use this lab to experience to observe changes in the day and night sky due to rotation and revolution. They will use this information to navigate their way through the stars. (Gr. 3-5)

Colors in Space

This star program takes students on a tour through space using the electromagnetic spectrum. Students will learn about stars by discovering their colors, temperatures and exploring ideas in reflection and refraction. (Gr. 3-5)

Surveying the Sky

Students in this program use the concepts of rotation and revolution to find objects in the night sky. Your fifth graders will create constellation cards, introducing and reinforcing concepts of seasonal and circumpolar constellations. Students will also use these cards to find directions and locate deep sky objects in the night sky. (Gr. 3-5)

Steering By The Stars

Students will use the visible effects of rotation and revolution to navigate through the night sky. Seasonal and circumpolar constellations will be introduced through laboratory activitiy, and students will create a seasonal clock using the stars as a guide.(Gr. 3-5)

Project: Planet Search

Students will explore the universe like never before. They will collect data on our nine planets and will travel to the stars to find which planets are visible in our own night sky (Gr. 3-5)

The Human Cell

Go inside a human cell and experience cellular digestion and reproduction up close! This one million-time magnification of a composite cell demonstrates the workings of a one-celled organism. Endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes, mitochondria, the Golgi complex, secretion vesicle, lysosomes, pinocytotic vesicles, microvilli, cilia, chromosomes and nucleolus are clearly displayed. An ideal introduction to cellular biology. (Grades 6-12)

Plate Tectonics

Based on the work of Dr. Paul D. Lowman (the continental Drift theory), this show involves a full dome projection of the active ridges, faults, spreading centers, and volcanic activity over the past 1 million years. This is a great interactive lesson for earth science classes. (Grades 6-12)

Weather

This program depicts atmospheric circulation patterns including wind system, jet streams and high and low air pressure masses. Students interactively explore pressure systems, storm systems, longitude and latitude. A special section is included on El Nino and La Nina. This show can be used as a summary, review, or introduction to weather. (Grades 6-12)

Follow the Drinking Gourd

This sky show, based on the book by Jeanette Winter, introduces the audience to the day and night sky while discussing the importance of the Big Dipper. Your students will learn and sing a song that was sung by slaves in Alabama and Mississippi that explained how to use the gourd to flee north to freedom. Truly a great program! Gr. 1 - 6

African Mythology

This colorful cylinder depicts constellation figures as seen by many African cultures such as the Dogon, Bushmen, Masai, Egyptians and more. The appearance of these constellations marked key events such as the beginning of the planting season, and signified important moral lessons. Useful for astronomy, mythology, art, literature, social studies and history for all grade levels. (K-12)

Greek  Mythology

A colorful combination of traditional artwork and folklore for 45 classical Greek constellations is featured on a background of 3000 stars.  (K-12)

Native American Mythology

This program provides colorful outlines of figures from Native American folklore such as Long Sash, the Great Bear, First Man and Woman, Spider God and many others with legends drawn from the Navajo, Shoshoni, Blackfoot, Cherokee, Tewa, Hopi and Algonquin tribes. Excellent for use with students studying astronomy, social studies or language arts. (K-12)

Pond Life

Jump in a pond and experience an underwater world teaming with life. Learn how the insects, fish and other inhabitants communicate and survive.

Cave World

Become a cave-dweller and learn what shares your world – from insects and animals, Troglophiles, Troglobites to organisms and structures.

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Requires a gym, large meeting room or lunchroom with 15' ceilings or higher.

Costs: $385 for 4 programs (minimum). Each additional program is $75. Booking for an entire week earns an extra discount.

Travel 35 miles (each way) is included in cost; additional mileage is extra.

Schedule our Traveling Galaxy Portable Dome or our Classroom Outreach programs and receive a Galileoscope for your school to keep!

We will provide teacher training and hands-on activities for the classroom.c

Call us for details.

We'd like to say a big "Thank You" to the Toyota Corporation for providing part of the funding for our new Digital Dome!