Teacher's Guides Download Page

All of Northern Stars Planetarium's presentations have Teacher's Guides designed to help you better prepare your students for their upcoming visit to the planetarium when it comes to your school or facility. The guides are available free of charge. Feel free to download any of the guides that you think might be useful.

The guides are provided as Adobe .pdf files which can be easily opened whether you use a Windows PC or a Macintosh. The files can be opened, printed, and copied as much as you like. Please do not change them.

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Title / Suggested Grade Level / File Size:

Star Charts:

Fall Star Chart (192K)

Winter Star Chart (200K)

Spring Star Chart (196K)

Summer Star Chart (196K)

Pictures in the Sky (Grades: Preschool-K) (548K) Newly Updated! (9/22/2006)

ABC's of the Sky (Grades: K-2) (439K) Newly Updated! (9/22/2006)

Our Family on the Sky (Grades: K-2) (284K) Newly Updated! (9/22/2006)

Our Place in Space (Grades: K-2) (496K) Newly Updated! (9/22/2006)

"Sandy, Pepper and the Eclipse" & "MoonWitch" (Grades: 2-4) (460K)

The Great Moon Adventure (Grades: 4-6) (416K)

The Wonderful Sky (Grades: 3-6) (300K)

A Ride on the Space Shuttle (Grades: 3-5) (300K)

Exploring Our Solar System (Grades: 3-6) (256K) Newly Updated! (9/22/2006)

Mars Magic! (Grades: 3-7) (200K) Newly Updated! (8/30/2005)

Stars (Grades: 5-8) (160K) Newly Updated! (8/30/2005)

The Sky Tonight (Grades: 6-8) (168K) Newly Updated! (9/22/2006)

Ideas and Discoveries (Grades: 5-8) (384K)

Sky Maps (Grades 5-8) (238K) Newly Updated! (8/25/2005)

Star Stories (Grades: 1-2) (232K)

Native American Sky Legends (Grades: 3-6) (156K)

Heroes, Gods & Monsters (Grades: 5-8) (140K)

A World of Sky Stories (Grades: 3-6) (68K)

"Follow the Drinking Gourd" (Grades: 2-4) (384K) This guide is temporarily unavailable while it is being updated for better historical accuracy.

Discovering Geography with Columbus (Grades: 3-6) (92K) This Guide is Formatted for Legal Size Printing, but will scale down to standard size.

Earth, The Ocean Planet (Grades: 4-6) (164K) Newly Updated! (8/30/2005)

Volcano! (Grades: 3-7) (308K) Newly Updated! (8/30/2005)

Weather and the Seasons (Grades: 5-8) (116K)

Discovering Geography with Columbus (Grades: 3-6) (92K) This Guide is Formatted for Legal Size Printing, but will scale down to standard size.

The World of the Dinosaurs (Grades: 1-3) (760K)

Birds in the Planetarium (Grades: 3-5) (268K)

Biology of the Cell (Grades: 5-7) (400K)

Migration (Grades 5-8) (1.8 MB) New! (9/13/2005)

These Teacher's Guides to shows that are no longer offered, while the shows are no longer available, teacher's sometimes still find these materials useful in the classroom.

Asteroids, Comets & Meteors (Grades: 3-8) (180K)

Listening to Space: Radio Astronomy (Grades: 4-8) (248K)

Telescopes: More Than Meets the Eye (Grades 4-7) (260K)

Voyager and Galileo: Explorations of the Outer Planets (Grades: 4-8) (256K)

Wonders of the Solar System (Grades 3-7) (252K)