Stars have a great significance for many people. Cultures all over the world have used stars to navigate and explain their stories. Visit this link below to see how Aboriginal people in Northern Australia used the stars to navigate their way in the night sky.

Read this page together (as a class), then follow the link on the bottom to the Burarra Gathering. Please take your visit in the Dry Season.

http://www.abc.net.au/messageclub/duknow/stories/s1091340.htm

http://burarra.questacon.edu.au/home.html (this will link you to the Burarra site)

Phases of our Moon

The moon orbits Earth every month. It doesn't not change shape as it orbits the Earth, but our view of the amount of sunlight hitting the moons surface changes as the month goes by.

Visit this link to watch the moon orbit earth.


When you have an idea of the different positions of the moon around our Earth. Use google to get images and make a "map" of the moon around Earth in Inspiration.

(do a google search for new moon, then take the picture and drag it into your inspiration map.) Make sure you save your work in your documents!!!