Carter Observatory Trip

Our trip to the Carter Observatory was super!
Here's how the day went...

On arrival we were greeted by John and Vicki. They told us the two activities we would do: a movie in the Planetarium with John and a lesson on phases of the moon, the sun and the earth and the relationships between the 3.

Firstly we went with Vicki. The session was very detailed and some of it was quite hard to understand, but we did learn a lot and it gave us some food for thought. Vicki was very knowledgeable!

We then got the opportunity to have a look around at the different exhibitions in the Observatory. We saw the huge (and quite old) telescope and had a look at some short clips about the planets, asteroids, the sun, the moon etc...

Finally, we went into the Planetarium with John. We sat in seats that made us lay back a bit so we could look at the huge dome shaped screen above us. We watched a movie about the effects that space has on astronauts, the training they had to go through and what types of things they did in space. It was a great movie!

Once we left we had lunch in the playground, a quick play and then back off to school.
A great day was had by all!
A special thanks to our parents who came along to support us.