Students will explore the sky and learn more about the relationship between the Earth, moon, and sun. Each student will make their own art of the moon’s surface to take home.
Capacity: 120
2nd Grade
Georgia Standards of Excellence: S2E1, S2E2
Field Trip will run for 3 hours and include the following programs (in no particular order):
- The Mark Smith Planetarium is an immersive full dome digital Space Theater that offers GSE-related astronomy programming.
- Observe the moon and its orbit, craters, and phases.
- Explore how the Earth, moon, and sun work together as a system.
- View stars in the night sky to understand star sizes and brightness.
- Our Discovery House consists of three fully interactive floors, including the Mini-Zoo, that you will be guided to and given tips on the best ways to explore.
- Create and design on our top floor in the Artist’s Garret.
- Observe the many animals in our Mini-Zoo on the main floor.
- Explore weather, dig for fossils, and more on our bottom floor in the Scientist’s Workshop.
- STEAM Activities occur in our designated classroom space where students learn and create through the STEAM process.
- Explore features of the moon surface such as craters.
- Create your own moon to take home.
- Our newly renovated outdoor picnic area provides covered and uncovered lunch spots for our field trip groups. During this time you may visit our Museum Store.
- Lunch should remain on the bus until lunch time as there is no storage at the Museum.
- You may order/cater lunch for your group. Please let the Front Desk know ahead of time. The Museum is not responsible for your food order.
- If you choose to visit the Museum Store, please send in 10 students at a time with a chaperone THROUGHOUT your lunch time. Waiting until the very end of your lunch time will slow the check-out process and may cause you to miss your final program/bus departure.