Astronomy ideas for kids

We are getting set to start astronomy for our science lessons this year, and so I’m organizing my hands on astronomy ideas from pinterest into something usable, and you get the benefit of that.

Hi! Future Ticia 2023 here. I came in to update this post and thought it was my Astronomy landing page. In reality, it’s my collection of cool astronomy ideas, which is good because that is so much less work to update than an actual post about my posts.

Umm, that didn’t make as much sense once I read it out loud as it did in my head.

Astronomy Supplies and general ideas

• Exploring Creation With Astronomy
• Astronomy Notebooking Journal (so excited to try out the older kids version this year)
•  CKE Earth and Space
• Astronomy videos

(for my ease, I’m dividing this up into segments to go with the Apologia Astronomy book, the earth science post will be divided up to go with the CKE Earth and Science)

What is Astronomy? activities

The big part for this chapter is the solar system in general, so here are my favorite solar system activities

• Solar System button project
• Solar System lapbook (with some early reading and math ideas thrown in)
• Solar System bracelet
• Solar System cake
• 10 Ways to explore the Solar System

Would you believe there are still more generic solar system ideas on my board, these are just my favorite 5.

The Sun ideas

Here’s my Sun lesson, and here are a whole slew of other people’s ideas.

• Sun unit
• Ideas for studying the sun
• Sun craft
• Solar eclipse

Mercury and Venus astronomy ideas

• Mercury and Venus unit
• make a volcano to study Venus

Earth science ideas

(this is coming soon, that’s a whole separate post because I’ve got so many of them)

Future Ticia here, we actually had an entire Earth Science year of science.

The Moon activities

• Moon unit study
• How far can you jump on the moon?
• How does the moon orbit around earth?
• Phases of the Moon video
• Phases of the moon ideas (printable and oreos)

Mars astronomy activities

• build a Mars Rover
• edible Mars rock

 Space Rocks activities

• Space rocks hitting earth
• Comet craft

Jupiter astronomy ideas

• Jupiter art and science lesson
• Jupiter science lesson

Huh, I didn’t know I had two Jupiter lessons among my astronomy posts. And this would be where I originally thought I was updating my Astronomy landing page, not here are cool astronomy ideas post. Why I started updating it from the bottom, I have no clue.

Saturn astronomy ideas

• Nothing, I had nothing saved

Uranus and Neptune astronomy ideas

Pluto astronomy ideas

Stars and Galaxies ideas

I could title this section: constellation ideas, because I have so many cool ones

• Constellations with rocks and chalk
• Printable constellation cards
• Constellation sewing cards
• Star deck
• Birth of Stars
• Spiral Galaxy craft
• Constellations movement activity

Space Travel activities

• Look at liquids in space
• Docking the space station
• watch an astronaut with water in space
• building Hubble Telescope

See all those sections that are empty?  I’d love to have some posts to add in to them.  So, if you’ve got some space posts make sure to link them up and I’ll add them in to my missing categories.  PLEASE!!!!!!

Originally posted August 9, 2014