Journey around the Moon (3)

Dacia Middle School Oradea, Romania
April  5-th, 2012

In the "Another School" program, students from 7-C grade from Dacia School,  learn about the Moon. They sent requests to Ebb with places on lunar surface, in order to be taken with its cameras. Diana has prepared for us a picture with Ebb, Flow and the Moon.

Journey around the Moon (2)

Dacia Middle School, Romania

April 5-th and 6-th 2012

In the "Another School" program, students from 4-D grade from Dacia School,  learn about the Moon. They sent requests to Ebb with places on lunar surface, in order to be taken with its cameras.
1. The Moon
2. Craters and seas on the lunar surface.
3. The space shuttle.
4. Building of rotative sky map.

Journey around the Moon (1)

The Children's Educational Center of Oradea, Romania
March 29, 2012


Humans have always looked the sky and wondered about misteries beyond the Earth. For many, their curiosity stops there. Others dream a journey into space, exploring the Moon or landing on Mars.
For members of Astronomy and Space Science Club Oradea, Romania, the dream continues. Two NASA spacecrafts were launched last year are now around the Moon. Ebb and Flow accomplish the dream of children from Astronomy and Space Science Club and Dacia Middle School to explore and study the Moon.

Phases of the Moon

Children's Educational Center of Oradea, Romania
March 15-th, 2012

The Moon is larger and brighter than any other object in the night sky. It has no light of its own but shines by reflecting sunlight.

Seen from Earth, on different days, Moon hasn't the same shape.The waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous and then full Moon when the Moon is on the opposite side of Earth to the Sun. Waning gibbous, last quarter, wanning crescent, and a invisible new Moon for us and sometimes, very rarely, it is visible for a few minutes.

The Moon has inspired us for millennia and continue to fascinate us with its mysteries...

The Earth and the Sun

Children's Educational Center of Oradea, Romania
March 1-st, 2012

Earth's orbit and steady, tilted axis from the vertical produse seasons.

The equinoxes and solstices mark the beginnings of sesons in the two hemispheres.
Earth's rotation causes day and night.

The Earth and the Moon

Children's Educational Center of Oradea, Romania
February 16-th, 2012

Although the Moon is much smaller than Earth, it still has an influence on it. Just as Earth's gravity pulls on the Moon, the gravity on the Moon pulls on Earth, stretching it into a slight ovoid. This affects the land and makes the oceans and seas bulge on either side of Earth, producing tides along coastlines.

Exploring the Moon

Children's Educational Center of Oradea, Romania
January 19-th, 2012

On September 10, 2011 an Atlas rocket was launched to the Moon. This rocket carries two probes: Ebb and Flow. On 31 December 2011 and January 1, 2012 the two probes entered the Moon's orbit. With their help we will explore the Moon in next months.

The Moon, Earth's natural satellites

December 8, 2011
Children's Educational Center of Oradea, Romania

On December 10 there will be a total eclipse of the Moon.

Moon rises Saturday at 16:30. Even when maximum eclipse occurs in the month following 25 minutes will remain in the shadows. We can see how the Moon out of the shadow starting at 6:18 p.m. The eclipse will end at 19:30 when the Moon comes out completely and shadows.


Moon, Earth's natural satellite;
Phases of the Moon;
Eclipses of the Moon.

From microcosm to macrocosm

November 17, 2011
Children's Educational center of Oradea, Romania

Evolution of the Universe from the Big Bang until today is fascinating. Subatomic particles, atoms of hydrogen and helium, stars, supernova explosions. Changes of some chemical elements ȋn others by through nuclear reactions. Are just some of the fascinating topics which we discussed them in International Year of Chemistry, 2011.
We can understand the macrocosm only by understanding of the microcosm. Two extreme-sized worlds in the midst of which is Man.

Practice: getting crystals.

Volcanoes, wonders of nature

November 3, 2011
Children's Educational Center of Oradea, Romania.

Only a few people have the chance to be aboard on International Space Station. NASA, in collaboration with the University of California offers students and the general public the opportunity to admire and study the Earth from the unique perspective of space. Using the Internet, Oradea children have the chance to select and send requests to the places on the Earth's surface to be photographed by astronauts aboard the ISS.



Activities:
1. Volcanoes, wonders of nature.
2. NASA project.

World Space Week 2011

Apollo Program
Location: Dacia Middle School Oradea, Romania
Time: Oct.6-th 2011

Twelve brave men landed on the Moon in Apollo Program. Successful missions, pictures and original movies with Saturn V lift off and astronauts' EVA activities, which impressed students from 8-th grade from Dacia Middle School Oradea, Bihor county.



Hidden Mysteries of the Moon
Location: Dacia Middle School Oradea, Romania

Time: Oct.6-th 2011

Since ancient times people have seen and admired the sky. The Moon inspired people with her ​​beauty always . Even today we know more about our planet's natural satellite but many mysteries still remain hidden. A NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission aims to reveal some of these mysteries, by using two spacecrafts to orbit the Moon in tandem, thus obtaining data for drawing a gravitational map of the Moon.


Journey on Mars
Location: The Children's Educational Center of Oradea, Romania
Time: Oct 6-th, 2011

After a brief description of the main space missions to Mars, the members of Astronomy and Space Sciences Club of Oradea, designed, built and programmed two rovers ready to explore Mars.
Curiosity and Exploration are the two robotic rovers built by two groups of members of astronomy and space exploration in Oradea city.