Eventually you will see here a workshop I am developing for Scout leaders and other adults who want to do astronomy with youth groups. Adult groups have fun with these too! The material available so far is a group of cookbooks, worksheets, and instructions for doing activities with groups. All of these are to get your group doing something active as they explore astronomy.

• Exploring our Solar System
  • Modeling the Solar System with photographs
  • A bead and string model of our Solar System
  • A graphical model of our Solar System
  • Comparing the Earth and Moon
  • Models of gravity
    • Modeling gravity by jumping
    • Notes on the jumping model
    • Converting weights to planets of different gravity
  • Modeling the mass of the planets with rice
  • Modeling the sizes and distances of the planets
  • Modeling the distances of the planets with toilet paper
  • Modeling the volumes of the planets with dough
  • Notes about the solar system models
  • Extend the mass and volume models by adding the Sun to them. This is more ambitious because the Sun is so much bigger than everything else in the Solar System.
• Exploring deep space
  • Our nearest neighbor stars
    • Turning your group into a model of our nearest neighbors beyond the Solar System
    • List of materials for the model
  • A balloon model of the life cycles of stars