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FIELD TRIP EXPERIENCES SHOWS Field trip experiences in the Willard Smith Planetarium allow students to explore space science concepts in a live, interactive presentation. Ask about cusomizing the show to meet your goals!

Preschool All Jupiter and its Designed for our youngest learners, this show is an This show focuses on the mission of the Juno opportunity for children of all ages to be introduced spacecraft. Students learn about the solutions devised to the wonders of . Students will practice for challenges facing the mission and use observational pattern recognition while discovering their first skills to compare Jupiter’s moons to the . . 15 minutes. Pre–K 30 minutes. Grades 6–12

The Sky Tonight Let’s Explore Light Focusing on naked-eye astronomy, The Sky Tonight In Let’s Explore Light, students learn about the nature shows students how the stars can be used for of light and the processes used by scientists who study navigation and how to find constellations and . light. They use spectroscopy to identify the building We talk about current visible events and also look blocks of stars, and discover how spectroscopy has at some objects only visible through a telescope. helped us understand the nature of the universe. 30 minutes. Grades K–12 30 minutes. Grades 6–12

The Planets NEW! Earth Pole to Pole Fly through the Rings of Saturn and see the largest In this planetary science live presentation we explore volcano on Mars as we visit the planets in our solar the northern and southern polar regions of the system. Feature content is chosen at staff discretion Earth. We explore how our polar regions affect every and focuses on news, new science and NASA aspect of the . 30 minutes. Grades 6–12 discoveries. 30 minutes. Grades K–12