Exploring the Sky
This complete guide covers more than just the night sky! Learn about astronomy and earth science with 72 projects, background information, history, mythology, and scientific principles. Make a sundial, study the constellations, compare the stars' brightness, map the stars, make models, find latitude and longitude, demonstrate retrograde motion, make reflecting and refracting telescopes, analyze light spectra, examine sunspots, and much more! This is a great book for the astronomy enthusiast, but it can also be used for a complete year of science or for supplemental projects. Ages 10 & up. 413 pp.