Net Impact offered an opportunity to volunteer during the Heritage Family Day at the Air and Space Museum. This annual event takes place every April at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC and helps children understand how different cultures see the sky, learn about telescopes and do some daytime observations.
Volunteer activities included:
Activities for 5 and up.
• Fashion a pocket solar clock. (it works like a small sundial)
• Build a working astrolabe out of paper.
• Recreate a Nebra Sky Disk (A Bronze Age star map)
• Create a Tactile Star Pattern
• Construct a tactile picture of Jupiter
Activities for the younger set
• Decorate your Sun Sign (Greek Mythology)
• Discover your Tibetan Sun Sign
Tactile Stations
• Tactile tour of a telescope
• Tactile tour of solar surface and solar images