Hubbles Next Discovery

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Hubbles Next Discovery

• Thurgood Marshall
• Elementary School
• May 1, 2009

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• Our group consists of 2 teams of astronauts
  taking part in Launching A Dream. This program
  is a year-long program that Dr. Stephanie Wright
  started 17 years ago in Delaware

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• The 4th and 5th graders competed and 26 were
  chosen to represent team Moonwalkers and Marshall
  S.T.A.R.S.

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• We have a computer lab where we all met and voted
  on our Hubble choice. We all voted and chose the
  Edge-On-Galaxy. We chose this one because we
  thought it was unique and we would like to
  experience all of the discoveries that Hubble
  would find there. Many of us were also
  fascinated with the shape of the Edge-On-Galaxy.
  It had many unusual qualities like its lack of
  color. Many of the photos didnt really
  challenge our interest and we thought this
  Edge-On-Galaxy would be filled with lots of
  exciting findings.

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• We decided to make our presentation three-
  dimensional and use recycled materials that we
  had at home. We made a large Hubble Telescope
  from soda bottles, egg cartons, and bubble wrap.

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• We made the main body of the telescope from
  plastic mayonnaise containers and made the longer
  piece by cutting off the top of bottles and
  sticking a bottle inside.

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• The next step was taping the two sections
  together and using wrapping paper tubes to make
  legs.

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• Now that we had the body done we went back to the
  lab and printed out our favorite pictures from
  the Hubble library.

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• We wrapped the bubble wrap around all of the
  pieces and used tape to attach all of our
  favorite Hubble photos. We used the winning
  Hubble Photo as the door on the telescope.

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• We had a Science Fair Night and we all wore our
  uniforms and displayed our telescope for the
  whole school to see. We had lots of questions
  about it and everyone loved it.

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• The other side of our telescope and a close up of
  the pictures we all chose.

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• These astronauts are wearing their uniforms and
  grouped around the finished Hubble Collage. We
  all learned a lot from this collage activity,
  especially what it is like to work together like
  a real team of astronauts might do. Everyone
  learned a lot about the Hubble Telescope and the
  missions that it has been on. We all hope the
  telescope will be around for a long time and that
  maybe some of us might become scientists that
  will use it someday.