Every year I offer to teach a course in our homeschool co-op, and I’ve taught astronomy many of those years. One year I was given a class of 3rd and 4th graders, and the focus of the class was planetary astronomy. Every week I grilled them on the names of the 8 planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, […]

A meteor is sometimes called a shooting star or falling star, but a meteor is not a star at all. Meteoroid vs. Meteor vs. Meteorite Space is full of things called meteoroids. These are small bits of rocky or metallic space junk. Most are pebble-sized. When one of these meteoroids gets too close to the […]

Below are just a few of the facts kids learn in Experience Astronomy. Do you know… 1. Why does Passover always fall on the Full Moon? 2. How many “dwarf planets” are officially recognized in the solar system? 3. What planet does Jesus liken himself to in Revelation 22? Are your stumped? Read the answers below. 1. […]