Planetarium aka Discovery Dome Shows Available http://www.midwayisd.org/cms/lib/TX01000662/Centricity/Domain/13/Discover%20Dome%20%TEKS%20ALL%202011. pdf
Website trailer/additional information Program Grade Length Spanish http://www.spaceupdate.com/?planetarium Level Look under Planetarium for a list of shows. Several have quizzes and activities attached. If the show is NOT from space up date, the website is included. http://www.clarkplanetarium.org/distribution/secretrocket 1 Secret of the 1-3 40 min yes Since its original opening, "Cardboard Rocket" continues to play as Cardboard one of the most popular shows in digital domes around the world! Rocket Embark on an outstanding adventure as two children spend a night touring the solar system alongside their ship's navigator, a talking astronomy book. Produced in 3-dimensional digital animation and a 5.1 soundtrack with spectacular sound effects created at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch. Imagine Earth were a distant place you once called home but could 2 Earth’s Wild 2-8 20 min yes never visit again. What would you remember most about the Ride planet, and how would you describe it to your grandchildren? Set on the surface of the Moon in the year 2081, a grandfather and granddaughter watch a solar eclipse from scenic cliffs overlooking their moon colony. Conversation leads to contrasts between the moon, the only home the granddaughter knows, and the Earth, where the grandfather has spent most of his life. As they watch the Moon's shadow move across Earth, the grandfather tells stories of crashing asteroids, erupting volcanoes, roaring dinosaurs, electrifying lightning and booming thunder. Each experience begins with a telescope view of the dynamic Earth in stark contrast with the unchanging lunar landscape. Future Moon honors the Apollo astronauts who first landed on the 3 Future Moon 2-8 22 min yes Moon on July 20, 1969, and the children of today that may return to the Moon by 2020. Working with NASA's Johnson Space Center, the Planetarium staff has created a realistic voyage to the Moon narrated by Walter Cronkite. Watch the violent collision that created our Moon billions of years ago, join Apollo astronauts as they explore the lunar surface, and hop on board a trans lunar craft for a journey to your Moon base of tomorrow. Don't miss this opportunity to re-live the Apollo historical moment and see our future lunar colony. Saturn is the true "Lord of the Rings". After nearly seven years in 4 2-8 22 min yes transit, the two-story Cassini-Huygens spacecraft began orbiting Saturn the Saturn on July 1, 2004. Cassini continues to explore Saturn and its Ring World moons during its extended mission, while the Huygens probe had landed on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The Cassini Saturn encounter began with a flyby of Saturn's farthest moon, Phoebe. See Saturn up-close and all-around-you inside our dome theater. As Saturn currently shines in our evening sky, visit the true “Lord of 5 Saturn the 5-12 22 min ? the Rings.” Ring World 2 revisits the Cassini Mission to Saturn as the Ring World two-story Cassini-Huygens spacecraft continues to study the ringed II(2) planet in all its glory. From Saturn itself to its moons see the Saturnian system up close like never before as Cassini continues giving us a greater knowledge of this remarkable planet. Using real movies and NASA based images; Force Five offers the 6 Force 5 3-12 22 min yes audience a vantage that would never be safe in the real world, (Hurricanes, creating a sense of what it would look and feel like if you were tornadoes, standing in the middle of a deadly storm. "Experience a storm space without getting wet!" storms) Hurricanes, tornadoes, and coronal mass ejections are shown, animated, and it shows how NASA measures these storms and solar events and predict nature’s next move. http://www.ibex.swri.edu/planetaria/ibexshow.shtml 7 IBEX- Search 3-12 28 min no Join scientists who are investigating the boundary between our for Edge of Solar System and the rest of our galaxy in IBEX: Search for the Edge the Solar of the Solar System. System Designed for visitors with an appreciation for the challenges of space science and a desire to learn more about science research, IBEX: Search for the Edge of the Solar System follows the creation of NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX). Audiences will get an in-depth look at the mission and how IBEX is collecting high-speed atoms to create a map of our Solar System's boundary. Narrated by two inquisitive teenagers, audiences will hear from the scientists and engineers that developed the IBEX mission and created the spacecraft, and get the latest updates on the mission's discoveries. http://www.pbs.org/soptv/400years/en/planetarium_program/two 8 Two Small 3-12 23 min no _small_pieces_of_glass.php Pieces of While attending a local star party, two teenage students learn how Glass the telescope has helped us understand our place in space and how telescopes continue to expand our understanding of the Universe. Their conversation with a local female astronomer enlightens them on the history of the telescope and the discoveries these wonderful tools have made. The students see how telescopes work and how the largest observatories in the world use these instruments to explore the mysteries of the universe. The seven most Amazing Astronomers of Antiquity are responsible 9 Amazing 5-12 22 min yes for most of the astronomy we still use every day: watching sunrises, Astronomers sunsets and the phasing moon; counting days, months and years; of Antiquity predicting the seasons and eclipses; gazing at the stars overhead and even reading horoscopes. Join in celebrating these amazing discoveries. Did you know that over 2,000 years ago ancient astronomers knew the Earth was round, measured its diameter and distance from the sun, created an accurate star map with magnitudes, knew the length of the year to the precision of our modern calendar, and developed a method for predicting eclipses? Sailors navigated by the stars and some astronomers thought that the Earth orbited the Sun.
Black Holes takes you on a journey through one of the most 10 Black Holes 5-12 23 min no mystifying, awe-inspiring phenomena in the universe: a black hole. Where do they come from? Where do they go? How do we find them? Is there one on Earth's horizon? Narrated by actor John de Lancie, this space adventure features rich, expansive panoramas and incorporates several of the latest scientific theories about how black holes are formed and where they are hiding now. Witness the bending of light, the skewing of perception, and the dizzying descent into a black hole. This show incorporates some of the most visually stunning three-dimensional effects ever created for the planetarium. Impact Earth is a planetarium show that teaches about meteors, 11 Impact Earth 5-12 24 min ? meteorites, asteroids, and comets. It includes results from recent NASA missions and about the dangers they can pose to life on Earth. It is created for full dome theaters but is also available on DVD to be shown in flat version for TVs and computer monitors. It shows dramatically the effects of the Chicxulub and Tunguska events, plus the Pallasite impact that resulted in the Brenham meteorite fall, and describes ways that asteroid hunters seek new objects in the solar system, and how ground penetrating radar is used to find meteorites that have survived to the Earth's surface. Narrated by astronaut Tom Jones, it also discusses ways that humans might try to deflect an asteroid or comet that is on a collision course with Earth. A new 2012 version of our multi-media planetarium program that 12 Night of the 5-12 22.5 yes combines "fully immersive" computer animation with the latest Titanic min scientific research, is allowing viewers inside dome theaters to experience what it was like to stand on the deck of the doomed ocean liner Titanic the night she sank. "Night of the Titanic" shows the unique conditions in Earth and space that -- coupled with human errors -- contributed to the sinking of the ship on April 15, 1912. Learn about: ocean currents, iceberg formation and drift, global warming. WE CHOOSE SPACE! A planetarium show for audiences of all ages 13 We Choose 5-12 24 min yes who dream of space and wonder about human spaceflight after Space Shuttle. It's a show filled with real adventures for the near frontier. Positive, possible, and exciting -- this is a promise we can make to our children, our future astronauts. Astronauts Scott Parazinsky, Tom Jones and Gene Cernan, and veteran space reporter Walter Cronkite are your tour guides on this adventure to the completed International Space Station and to the past and future moon. Include full dome imagery using OUR fisheye lens on the ISS!
We do have Widescreen version DVD’s of the full dome shows with English Subtitles and Spanish audio options available that can be shown as a movie on your TV’s instead of in the Discovery Dome. We can send them through School Mail from the HS. Each DVD is a “Volume” which includes 1-3 Videos.
Discovery Dome Widescreen DVD’s Available
Program Grade Level Length Website trailer/additional information Volume One 1 Dinosaur Prophecy 2-8 21 min All can be viewed at: http://spaceupdate.com/?planetarium Look under Planetarium 2 Earth’s Wild Ride 2-12 20 min 3 Force 5
Volume Two 4 Amazing Astronomers of 5-12 22 min Antiquity 5 It’s About Time 3-12 21 min 6 Star of Bethlehem 3-12 21 min
Volume Three 7 Ice Worlds 8 Impact Earth 9 Saturn The Ring World 2
Volume Four 10 Mayan Prophecies 3-12 26 min 11 Night of the Titanic 5-12 23 min 12 Secrets of the Dead Sea 3-12 21 min
Volume Five 13 Microcosm 4-12 17 min 14 Body Code 3-12 21 min 15 Lucy’s Cradle 3-12 21 min
Volume Six 16 X-Planets 3-12 23 min 17 Lucy’s Cradle 3-12 21 min 18 The Search for Life in the 3-12 22 min Universe
Volume Seven 19 Future Moon 2-8 22 min 20 We Choose Space 5-12 24 min
E-Planetarium Full dome Shows range in price from 2,500 to 6,000. If you discover a show that you would really like for your grade level go to Grants for Great Ideas!! http://www.midwayisd.org/Page/946
To reserve the Discovery Dome go to Eduphoria under facilities and events and can be reserved there. Astronomy is taught at the HS and they have first pick, but there are plenty of free weeks.