Friday, September 25, 2009

Astronomy for the Kindergartener

The fun facts of astronomy are found at this great website, run by NASA. The NASA website has games, easy read books, picture dictionary, and homework topics to cover for your Kindergartener.

The NASA website's games encourage the mind to learn about space while having fun. One of the games is a matching game. Through this game, the child will learn about stars, planets, space shuttles, telescopes, and satellites. The website has a picture as well as a brief summary about each one. The game starts out easy, but with each level it becomes harder and you learn more things about space.

Children are able to see and read about space with NASA's section on easy read books. Robots Storybook is about robots and the useful things that they do for NASA. The robots have names such as Robonaut, Mars Rovers, Remote Manipulator System, and the Stardust. Children will learn about how a robot works and ways that they are different from us.
Children can learn about the abcs of space with this picture dictionary. The dictionary covers things from what a aircraft is to the change in weather. The dictionary also has a summary of each one.
G is for Galaxy. The earth is found in the Milky Way Galaxy. This Galaxy is the home of millions of stars, and are held together by gravity. M is for Matter. Matter is anything that takes up space. It is matter if you can see, hear, taste, feel, or smell it.

Children will learn a variety of information from the homework topic and will have questions answered. The children learn about why Astronauts go on space walks and how they are able to do things when there is no gravity to hold them down.

Together you can learn fascinating information about space with your kindergarten.


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