Thursday, August 13, 2009 - The 2009 Perseid Meteor Shower...

Tuesday night I set the alarm clock to go off at 2am which was the beginning of the peak time to see the meteor shower that I had been waiting for days to show the kids...Well, mother nature didn't cooperate with us and it was cloudy and proceeded to thunder-storm...

But being persistent, we set out to see what we could last night... 

                  (wish our view could have looked like this one)

                         (but it looked more like this...)

And WE DID IT!!!  I now have 2 kidlets that are thrilled about seeing the meteors and looking forward to getting up this morning and learning more about them...

Even though it was not the "prime" viewing time the astronomers had suggested, it was still beautiful and a reminder of God's awesome power and greatness... They were beautiful, some were fast and fleeting and some were large and slow and seemed to glow forever...

Here are some resources that I have found this morning while researching for lesson plans/ideas to use today with the kidlets....

2009 Meteor Showers

 National Geographic

Astronomy for Kids   this is one of my favorite sites (use it all the time)

These are some books that I checked out from the library hoping to get to use them!! (had my fingers crossed )

a unit study for this can be found here

a unit study for this can be found here

and then this is a great book "I can be an Astronomer" by Paul Sipiera...

Hope you got to enjoy the beautiful show from heaven as we did!!

Have a great day and keep your eyes to the stars!!!

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