SCHOOL PROGRAMS

EDUCATIONALLY SOUND

LASM educational programs are aligned with current state standards, benchmarks, and GLE’s.

See GLE’s and classroom activities listed with each program.

Related programs are denoted by the word Link.

Ventures Through Our Solar System

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This favorite program focuses on the strikingly different characteristics of the eight planets and their moons, and the formation of the solar system. The planetarium’s fulldome digital projection system takes students on an immersive, interactive adventure through our solar system that reveals the latest NASA planetary discoveries. After returning to Earth, students will participate in tracking the moons of Jupiter just as Galileo did to revealing the latest NASA planetary discoveries. A brief tour of the current seasonal night sky precedes this live, presenter-led program.

Grade Level: 3–5

State Standards, Benchmarks, and GLEs

Grade 3
ESS-E-B1 Identify, in order, the planets of the solar system.
ESS-E-B4 Explain the results of the rotation and revolution of Earth.

Grade 4
ESS-E-B6 Explain how technology has improved our knowledge of the universe (e.g., Hubble telescope, space stations, lunar exploration)

Grade 5
ESS-M-C1 Identify the physical characteristics of the Sun.
ESS-M-C2 Describe the characteristics of the inner and outer planets
ESS-M-C5 Identify Earth’s position in the solar system.

Classroom Activity - Scaling the Solar System

Classroom Activity - Solar System Search

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LASM is fully accredited in accordance with the standards of excellence prescribed by the American Alliance of Museums.

These programs have been made possible in part through the generous support of the East Baton Rouge City-Parish Government and the members of LASM, the Community Fund for the Arts of Greater Baton Rouge and the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, and are supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.