To Space and Back Again
Kindergarten boys had an out-of-this-world experience on their recent trips to the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. Their teachers timed it perfectly. The boys arrived at the museum and stepped into a glass elevator, which took them directly to the Dark Universe space show. The show’s narrator, Neil deGrasse Tyson, guided the boys through galaxies while describing the mystery of dark matter and how space exploration has changed over the past one hundred years. The boys were swept through star-filled skies into distant universes. As they left the show, one boy exclaimed, “I feel like I’m not on earth!”
After the show boys explored several exhibits in the planetarium. Highlights included touching a real asteroid and figuring out how much boys would weigh on the moon and different planets. This was the perfect trip to complement the boys’ studies in the classroom which has focused on outer space the past few weeks. Many thanks to the teachers and parent chaperones for transporting the kindergarten boys to another universe.
