Winter is a great time for some astronomy, with all those frosty clear skies and dark nights falling early. Below are the names of some of the constellations that can be seen from the UK during the winter. Can you find them in the word search?
AQUARIUS AURIGA CANIS MAJOR CANIS MINOR CASSIOPEIA CYGNUS GEMINI ORION PEGASUS PLEIADES TAURUS If you’d like to find out how to spot them in the night sky, or read some of the legends behind the names, go to www.science-teachers.com/constellations.htm and download the worksheets on Circumpolar Constellations and Winter Constellations.
If we don’t get the snow we’d like this winter, we might have to make our own! Youtube is a great resource for anything like this. Search for ‘origami snowflake’ or ‘paper snowflake’. We found that this brought up examples that were too complicated for us so we searched for ‘simple origami snowflake’ instead! One of the results was a video entitled ‘How To Do Origami Snowflakes’. Although it wasn’t so much origami, more like paper cutting, it is really very easy. If you made lots, using different colours and sizes of paper, they could look very effective. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4gsW2Q46yQ
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