Portable Planetarium

Forget about transportation costs, permissions slips, and organizational headaches!

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The Drake Planetarium & Science Center’s Traveling Explorer Show comes directly to you for a fraction of the cost of a traditional field trip. Drake’s traveling programs are the perfect way to provide your students with a truly immersive experience by presenting them with stimulating sights and sounds at every angle. We’ll bring one of our state-of-the-art, inflatable Explorer Domes to your school and give your students a day or a week of exciting science instruction.

 

Our Explorer Domes provide the perfect atmosphere for individualized teaching and lively discussions that support learning in science, technology, engineering, and math. You bring the thirst for knowledge and we’ll give you outstanding instruction, innovative lessons, and a valuable classroom experience that supports Common Core and national science standards.

 

These programs are customized to target four broad age groups, presenting the most interesting and relevant material for each:

 

• Grades PK-2:
  Accidental Astronaut
  Are the stars out tonight
  Follow the drinking Gourd 
  Meet the stars
  Stories about the stars - Constellation Mythology
  Sun, Seasons and Directions
  Card Board Rocket
   

• Grades 3-5:  
  Create a Myth - Ancient Mythology
  Telling Time with the Stars
  Two Small Pieces of Glass
  Solar System Cycles & Patterns
  Motions of the Earth
  All about the Moon