Before class preparation

• What are constellations?
• How were constellations used throughout history?
• What do modern astronomers use constellations for? Is there even a need?

In class activity

• Activity: Using a Star Map, find constellations in the night sky
  • Name constellations & asterisms from a given pattern

• Lesson: Using constellations
  • Identify the names different things we can see in the night sky (stars, planets, constellations, asterisms…etc)
  • Compare and contrast different astronomical terms
• Finding the Big Dipper, Polaris, Sirius and other stars in the night sky

After class work

• Constellations worksheet