Summary
A Ready Jet Go! clip on PBS LearningMedia. The kids learn that a constellation is a group of stars that forms a picture in the sky, and that people have named these star pictures for a very long time. A friendly intro to reading the night sky.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Connect the dots in the night sky and you get a constellation — a star picture.
- What is a constellation?
- Why did people give constellations names?
- When can you see the stars best?
- What picture would you make out of stars?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: constellation, star, pattern, night sky, picture.
Try it: Make your own constellation: put 6 dots on paper and connect them into a picture. Name it.