A homeschool review of wonders to watch for in the northern hemisphere night sky during the month of December 2019.
🔭 Post Archives: Homeschool Astronomy
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken.
Great homeschool teaching ideas, resources, and little lessons on stars, planets, constellations, comets, meteors, galaxies, space exploration, and other astronomy-related topics from the River Houses Homeschool Network. Add your name to our free River Houses mailing list and get posts like these delivered right to your mailbox every week! 😊
❡ Star bright: This Homeschool Astronomy archive includes our monthly Great Star posts, which are also available separately. 🌟
🌠 🦄 HEADS UP: Possible Meteor Storm Thursday Night (21–22 November 2019)
This Thursday night (21–22 November 2019) there may be a significant, though brief, meteor storm associated with the annual Alpha Monocerotid meteor shower. Be sure to take your homeschool astronomy students outside for a look!
🌠 🦁 LEONID METEORS for November 2019
Take your young homeschool astronomers outside this week and look to the constellation Leo for the annual Leonid meteor shower.
🌠 WONDERFUL WORDS: Of Poems and Meteors
“No star is lost at all / From all the star-sown sky.” (Our homeschool poem-of-the-week, from A.E. Housman, for the annual Leonid meteor shower.)
☿ 🌞 HORACE the Astronomical Otter and the Transit of Mercury
An otterific round-up of this week’s big astronomical event, the 2019 Transit of Mercury — another one won’t occur until 2032! (And don’t miss the futuristic painting of the Mercury transit of 1914!)
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Algol for November
Make the acquaintance of Algol in the constellation Perseus this month — one of the brightest stars in the northern hemisphere sky — and make it your homeschool friend for life.
☿ 🌞 TRANSIT OF MERCURY, 11 November 2019
Homeschool tips on how to observe next week’s transit of the planet Mercury across the face of the sun — if you miss it, you’ll have to wait until 2032 to see one again.
🔭 WATCHERS OF THE SKIES – November 2019
A homeschool review of wonders to watch for in the northern hemisphere night sky during the month of November 2019.
☄️ SATURDAY STARS: “When a new planet swims into his ken”
An interstellar visitor, Comet 2I/Borisov, is passing through our solar system. It’s only the second such object ever discovered. Why not invite your young homescholars to investigate it this month.
🌟 STAR BRIGHT: Alpheratz for October
Make the acquaintance of Alpheratz this month, the brightest star in the constellation Andromeda — and make it your homeschool friend for life.
🔭 WATCHERS OF THE SKIES – October 2019
A homeschool review of wonders to watch for in the northern hemisphere night sky during the month of October 2019.
🗓 🍂 FALL IS HERE! (Astronomically Speaking)
It’s the first day of fall in the northern hemisphere (and the first day of spring in the southern hemisphere). A crossword puzzle from NASA will help your homeschoolers learn all about it.
