A sky full of stars at OMES

Oak Mountain Elementary recently hosted their annual STARLAB Week. STARLAB is an inflatable planetarium that brings the night sky into the classroom. All students, kindergarten through third grade, had the opportunity to enter the planetarium and get an up-close look at the stars, discover the constellations and learn folk legends about many of the constellations.

Third grade students got an even more in-depth understanding about our sky. They studied solar weather, what defines a light year, star clusters and galaxies, how constellations are used in science today, the effects of light pollution and the usage of telescopes.