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Shows are on Tuesday and Thursday mornings only at 10:00 & 11:30 during the college's fall and spring semesters. Maximum of 72 people per show.

Please refer to for more information on the standards discussed in the shows.

Below is for Grades 1-3, you may also select from the following grade levels:

Grades 3+ Grades 5+ Grades 7+

Grades 1-3

The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket

Secret of the Cardboard Rocket Vocabulary list.

You will first go on a live tour of the evening sky with our Planetarium Director, Nick Strobel, pointing out the constellations and planets you will see in this evening's sky.

Then you will experience a truly dark night sky and understand how light pollution affects our view of the stars.

After the evening sky tour, you will experience the all-dome video called 鈥淭he Secret of the Cardboard Rocket.鈥� A 40-minute all-dome video from Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City, you will embark on an outstanding adventure as two children spend a night touring the solar system in their cardboard rocket alongside their ship's navigator, an astronomy book.

This show was produced with state-of-the-art 3D animation and 5.1 soundtrack with spectacular effects created at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch.

Key Concepts

• Constellations, myths and why constellations appear to move through the sky
• Sun facts
• Sun and planet size comparison (scale model of the solar system)
• A brief description of each of the planets and some of their major features

Standards

• Grade 3: Earth Science- 4a, 4d, 4e
• Grade 4: Earth Science- 5a, 5b, 5c
• Grade 8: Physical Science- 4e