 Okay, welcome to the special edition enrichment webinar from the NASA night sky network. This webinar we are featuring the new night sky network outreach toolkit in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon. And so on there you can see that there's a url that can direct you to the night sky network website and that has a lot of the resources that are in the toolkit but also some PDFs of some of the resources that are expendable so that you can get some new resources to replace what you use up during your outreach events. For those of you who haven't met us in the past, my name is Brian Cruz. I'm the director of the teacher learning center here at the ASP and also typically the host of these webinars. And so with me I have Vivian White. Hi, I'm Vivian and I help administer the NASA night sky network. And in case this is your first time joining the night sky network is a group of 450-ish astronomy clubs across the country. And this toolkit that we're about to introduce is one of the benefits of membership of joining the night sky networks. We'll tell you about that. We also have Dave here. Dave are you on? He's across the hall. All right and so we'll hear from Dave Prosper a little bit later but first here's Vivian with an overview of the toolkit. Great. Like I said, thanks Brian. The toolkits have benefited membership and clubs in the NASA night sky network can report on their events that they've held and earn these materials for free every quarter. There are dozens of other there's you know at least a dozen not dozens of other toolkits ranging from solar system to black holes to extra solar planets. And so all clubs in good standing should have received your kit already for last month. And if you haven't and you think you should have let us know or if you need to log some events just go ahead and post those online. If you have any questions you're feel free to reach out to us anytime. This mini moon toolkit contains a variety of resources and we're going to share a lot of those with you this evening. But what I'm going to do first is kind of give you an overview of what you find in the toolkit where to find them. If you don't have the toolkit and then we're going to get into more detail about how to use each of them. And after we demonstrate those you're going to have a chance to ask questions and share ideas and we'll get to hear back from you. So let's see. These are our included resources right. And I think I'll just leave that for just a second. On the main webpage the link is at the bottom and it'll be on many of these slides so you if you don't have time to write it down don't worry. But you'll find links to these resources as well as resources from other partners like the NIAS network. Let me go through these just quickly. There we go. The first one is the tactile moon. These are just what it sounds like tactile moon images so that you can use with people who have limited seeing or also just with people who like to get up and touch things. So we have the full moon and the taiko crater which are pretty darn neat and they're from a book called getting a feel for lunar craters put out by survey and the direct link to that is there. Who's surfing? Oh I wish you hadn't asked but I can't remember the acronym stands for. I know we use these acronyms and we forget that not everyone knows what the acronyms are. Do you know what it stands for? It's the bunch at NASA who produces a lot of really cool digital and other resources about solar system exploration. There you go solar system. It stands for the solar system exploration research virtual institute. Thank you so much. I don't know how I didn't remember that. That's why they call it survey but they have great resources and this link will get you right there. We have these lunar phase cards and these are downloadable from the website. You can download and print them very easily and we'll show you in just a minute how you use some of those. We also have our mythology card stories from around the world about what people see in the moon along with a worksheet so that you can encourage kids and adults who like to draw and tell stories to share their own stories of what they see in the moon. Let's see we've also got sky watchers guide to the moon which is a lunar map showing everything. These are handouts you can just have at any of your events that encourage people to look up and show them what you can see in the moon. One more because we get it an awful lot from people that come to our star parties. Can you see the flag on the moon? Well here's going to show you why your backyard telescope will not show the flag on the moon but it's a cool thing. It's a powers of ten activity Dave will show us about in a second. Let's see oh I think so I think that's it oops there we go. So here are a few links. Anyone who wants these the free downloads are they're all freely available. You can download them and print anything you want that's at bitly bit.ly slash nsn moon. Now the tactile moon link that I showed earlier is also a bitly link it's just touch moon and then someone was asking earlier we are offering a limited number of these that we have extra left over that we made extras of because we thought other people will be interested in we're offering them at cost and that's through the astro shop so I just made short link to that they come in different sizes so you can order a small one or a big one and we'll show you what's in you can find out what's in all of those on the astro shop but we'll show you what's in the kit as it comes next so I think that's it and I'm going to hop out of here so that we can actually show you the materials. All right well thanks Vivian for that great overview now we're going to go through some of the specific resources we're going to start out with Dave who's going to show us the lunar phase cards. Okay so um you can download these again at the uh from the resource website uh actually really about these cards uh you can also um well you can get physical copies of these in the kits uh you we also have these available for download on the nice guy network website at the aforementioned link uh you can print these out they're in a pdf format so you can you know print them and use them like we rapidly did sum up here um or you can also uh put them on your tablet or laptop a little bit of red film or whatever you want to use for nighttime activities too if you're more of into that so anyway um so we kind of made these a common thing for a lot of folks starting out with observing the moon in particular people think oh we want to observe the moon on a full moon um they think that's the best time to observe it it's fun to look at the full moon but uh really you kind of want to see it during all of its different phases and really peek along the terminator where the contrast is uh strongest uh in a sense I guess uh the terminator of the moon is kind of the equivalent of the golden hour for terrestrial photographers especially instagramers and uh so while the moon the lunar cycle is 29 days long we did not make 29 cards uh we capped them at the first 11 days and with each day on these cards uh we feature a phase for that day and uh several cool features for that day to check out generally it's the moon so a lot of craters some seas a few uh mountain ranges and rays as well and uh on the back for each one we have a little bit of lunar science we've got some history here um end of day five we have a color of the moon and some of the the actual uh color scheme they're the color swatch that they use to actually check out their photos on the moon and so on um we tried to match up the science with the features as much as possible with these cards and well it's not 100 one to one for each card we think that they uh work pretty well and help give a kind of a brief overview of the moon and some of the science behind what you're seeing and uh while we don't have space on all these cards to feature every different sort of lunar feature or notable crater or sea we tried to get a lot of them on here as we could um and uh we actually also feature uh challenges um on the bottom of some of these cards too to kind of there's sort of like many activities you can engage your visitors with uh so um like for example of uh well we'll take up too much time to go through right now um but you can check them out for yourself and uh on the next activity thanks dave that was great okay let me on pinion all right uh so the next thing we're gonna do actually requires a little bit of darkness as many of the activities for the night sky network are good at um we have these are the tactile versions of the moon a little tricky to see in this light but um they are uh there's a full moon version like this and then there is a version of the taiko crater that also shows the side relief of what it looks like and what's underneath there's a scale on the top of each of them uh taiko crater one centimeter that you can feel right here um is eight kilometers or five mildish and there's braille on the top so people who know how to read braille can uh read it uh on here as well so i want to show you one thing that we often do oh one more thing i want to feature this qr code here um that's the one that will get you directly to the um link on the survey website that we showed you before that also has an entire um explanation and an audio explanation of how what they're feeling on the moon so if someone actually has is limited insight they can feel their way around the moon and it talks about all the different pieces and what they're feeling and some of the craters and it kind of gives a tour with your fingers which is very cool um and oh i wanted to say so we use this one in an activity called spotting craters and there's a link to that on the website where um uh that we showed you in the beginning and this is kind of cool let me see if you can turn that this one worked with that light let's try this so the spotting craters activity has to do with um also when the best time to view the moon is let me see how i got this before yeah oh i think i had to turn this off let's see there we go now we can get some uh we can you can use a flashlight or you can uh use a single light over there and thanks dave just put the spotting craters activity in the chat there um but you can see how much more detail you can see when you have shadows on the moon as opposed to when the moon is shining directly on a spot now this is interesting this is not where the apollo 11 astronauts landed however um the apollo 11 astronauts did land right at sunset on the moon so they landed um they had to schedule the flight when the sun was only five to 14 degrees above the horizon because they really needed those shadows to show them what you know where things were on the moon as they were landing but also to kind of give scale to things because it was all bright and there were no shadows it would be very hard to see on the moon um the shadows give us a lot of information and and make as you all know viewing the moon an awful lot of fun so one other thing on the website link you can also get links to if you have access to a 3d printer i love these um we were playing around we tried to get some of these in the toolkit but we didn't have enough to send you all one so um these are 3d printed versions of the lunar landscape a little turned around here this one does have apollo 11 on there somewhere i don't think i marked it but this is really fun for your outreach activities and if you have access to a 3d printer or if your local library has access to a 3d printer you can print them pretty inexpensively they don't even have to be this thick you can make a set that's very sturdy and i use this one all the time for outreach and kids love to come up and touch them and it's a pretty nice way to go so there's that and while we have the lights dim i want to show you one more uh resource that's in here and i think we have to switch to this camera now switch cameras let's try that all right now you can see the workspace whoo all right so many of you guys know this activity this is um it was used extensively for um the eclipse that happened in 2017 this is um uh just uh it's called the yardstick eclipse and many of you receive this it's also in this toolkit um and it is a scale model of the earth at one inch and the moon down here at a quarter inch and we put it on a yardstick because you can fit 30 earths in between the earth and moon no matter what scale you're doing but if this uh earth is an inch that means you can fit between the earth and moon 30 inches okay so many of you are already familiar with this activity or some variation of it here's another way to do that so we did a little bit of calculation and i looked on here and there are not many eclipses coming up the next couple of years the next lunar eclipse isn't until march may of 2021 so we have a little bit of time before that happens but in the meantime you can use an activity like this um you can use it right i showed you how to do let's say i guess we didn't do the eclipse yet so if you see you can make an eclipse here pretty darn easily you can also make this is a lunar eclipse where the sun um is blocked by the earth and um you can make a solar eclipse of course by turning it around one other thing you can do with it is if you let's see if you can see it here i guess we don't actually need the lights yeah okay right all right so one thing you can do and i'm gonna switch back to the other video for that that's easier to see thanks brian all right and now can you see the whole thing oh knock you out all right um one thing you can do is um what we found that comes up pretty often the supermoon versus the mini moon and people seem to be really excited about it and it causes more interest in the moon and that's pretty exciting um one way you can talk about that so 30 earth diameters is the average distance to the moon but if you want to take this and use it to demonstrate how close the moon is during a supermoon versus a mini moon um it might get a little bit of wall on disappointment from your audience because it's only about two inches closer for a supermoon and about two inches further away than average on a mini moon so really the distance is not changing that much but it does change appreciably you can tell that there is a difference but it's not as though the moon is going to be right next to the earth during a supermoon we don't want to create that misconception so this gives you a way to talk about that so that's one we the other way we use that one um and i think brian's going to tell us about um the mythology yeah great thank you so one of the other ones that we're really excited about and this is one that was developed that we've been using and it's a variation on one that we've been using for close to 20 years around here um and so some of you may have seen this before and so one of the things we've you've got actually two versions of this in the kits you've got a version that you can use one of these rings for so we have a nice full moon here and if you open it up then the first page here are moon stories from around the world and then it goes through and it has a variety of stories and so here we have a picture kind of illustrating one of these stories and then you flip it over and it turns out that this is a story called fox in the moon that's a story that was told um traditionally in Peru and then here's another story where we've got a nice uh toad here in the middle and that this is the toad in the moon which is a story from china and so on we've got a variety of different stories that we have here and so you can have this out at one of your event they're nice and solid that you can go to use now if you happen to use the these up or if you want to have additional copies there is a another version of this that you can download as a pdf and print these to your heart's content which uh is basically on a piece of paper like like this and so moon stories from around the world that has the explanations and then you have these other pages which you've got the picture that the illustration and then the story on the back well this isn't the really exciting part i mean it's exciting to have all these stories but the really cool part is that you can then print out one of these and so we supplied one of these for you on some nice cardstock so it doesn't get bunched up too much but you can print out these this template is that i can see this template is uh also on uh on the website and so what you can do is you can give this to the visitors they can look at the stories um on the cards and then they can look at the moon see what sort of figure that they might see on the moon looking at the different patterns of the maria and the highlands and then they can draw the figure there on the moon and then they can tell the story with the character down here and we actually have a story here and so um oh yeah where is that story so we have a story we were just doing a um well we might just have to tell them the story i don't know that i have it right here with me but we had a we did an event at the cal academy last week uh actually first astronomy day and um and one of the stories oh you've got it here we found it okay can you see and so here's so here's a story that was uh was was told we don't have um the image here but here's the story that um one of the children that came by told about nine i think yeah about nine and so the characters are a painter and a farmer once upon a time a painter was painting a farmer's fence then the farmer said let's have a seesaw battle battle so the painter did when they did the painter accidentally brought the paint with you the farmer made the painter go too high into space and the painter spilled his paint on the moon so i thought that that was incredibly creative and this is the sort of thing that really can help um some of the learners of any age who come to your uh events um get excited about about because it really builds in uh their stories that they can tell about the moon and every culture has had stories about the moon and a lot of us have stories about why the moon is important to us and then we can have this opportunity to create these and we've we've discovered that it's not just little kids um who enjoy this adults enjoying coming up with their own stories uh even adults uh really feel like they want that creative output to be able to build some relevance to uh the moon and that really is uh what we're all about here is to helping create that spark create that relevance for people and this is a way to really personalize the experience i think what i like a lot about that is often you'll get the parents say wait i haven't told you the story about the moon that my mom told me and then you'll get the parents telling the kids their moon stories from wherever they're from and whatever traditions they've got so it's really nice it's also to engage kind of multi-generational in that way a nice one one of the other really cool things that goes along with the storytelling is that we have a link on the website um and Dave Prosper is going to bring that up and play one of the stories uh from one of our partners at the lunar and planetary institute they have a whole range of moon stories that are available that you can play as audio so here's Dave right and here we go oh i should say this is the drummer on the moon story from uh the ivory coast children look look up at the moon see the man sitting there on the moon he is the drummer man listen children i will tell you about the drummer man on the moon he got there before your father's father and your mother's mother before their fathers and mothers the drummer man sits there on the moon and plays his drum his drum is a talking drum he plays his talking drum for the spirits of our ancestors our ancestors are there on the moon they are waiting for us we cannot see our ancestors we see only the drummer man all night he plays and sings and chants and tells stories to our ancestors oh children when the moon is full remember to look for the drummer man you will see him sitting there playing his drum and if you listen maybe you will hear him as you fall asleep tonight when you fall asleep you can dream of the drummer man now you can dream the story see the drummer man can you hear the drummer man the story is ended oh thanks dave that's great so let's go ahead and stay with dave for a minute he's going to share with you one of uh one of the other activities from the kit wait i just want to mention um charelle web in the chat just mentioned that she works at the uh lunar and planetary science institute lunar and planetary institute and they're going to have one of the stories playing during their library open house on july 20th so if you're near there yeah check it out that's awesome think about how you might incorporate that i mean you can play them from anywhere on your phone or something at an event it really adds this um kind of levity and um a mystique to the moon when you're looking up at it it's kind of nice okay and there's the link there to some of the stories as well and uh speaking of this isn't really a story but um definitely hear from folks um this is the flag on the moon activity um it's just a nice little sheet or a handout you can give to folks who just use it to guide them through some of uh like a kind of why we can't actually see the flag on the moon from earth um you've almost certainly been asked if you can see the flag in the moon with your telescope or the apollo landing sites in general um we all know that we're pretty limited and how close we can zoom in in the moon but a lot of folks when they come up they don't understand the limits of our telescopes and so um this handy sheet can hopefully help with that uh on this we kind of do just a quick run through of the different levels of uh i guess levels of observation that we can get to on the moon or how much we can zoom in um the it goes through the kind of the largest thing we can see it sort of with each instrument from our eyes binoculars and telescope and so on uh the smallest features that we can see for each are still pretty large i mean especially obviously with your eyes it's usually maybe a crater but usually it's the seas and um telescopes and onwards you get smaller and smaller craters and rills and stuff which you still can't really see say a spacecraft on there and uh what people say well can't the Hubble turn that on the moon and actually see uh the apollo site and it turns out that the Hubble actually has a pretty large size limit as well versus uh what most people think it can readily see and the Hubble has actually made a very few observations on the moon but it's not really designed for that and um i think i heard one of our guests say something once on one of our previous webinars that the Hubble's made for looking deeper not closer if that makes any sense kind of but um the only telescopes i can really see the flag on the moon are the ones that are actually orbiting the moon like in particular uh the lunar reconnaissance orbiter which on this sheet can just sort of barely make out the little uh a few pixels of that uh where the flag of the apollo uh lander are um but for some folks maybe it makes more sense to sort of flip the problem and say well if you were standing on the moon could you what's the largest feature that you could actually see on earth if you were on the moon and then it's like oh yeah it would be pretty hard to have a telescope there and see your house breathing in your state versus even something as small as like your car or even a relatively small flag um yeah um that's kind of it this is a fun little sheet a quick little uh quick little uh summary of uh some of that and uh back to you i know when we were researching that um some of the imagery for that and i actually discovered there i somewhere in the middle of the country there's a really huge flag outside an insurance company i don't remember exactly where and you can't even see it uh until you zoom in with uh google earth view um until you zoom in quite a ways you know even with that from low earth orbit it's really hard to find and that's a huge flag way bigger than the ones that are on the moon so it's uh it's a pretty good challenge yeah so Vivian wants to show us so one of the resources that we also developed that's on the website is uh a nice little short power point and Vivian just wants to show you just a few of the sample um slides from that yeah this is one of the things that we get um uh asks for uh quite a bit let's see if i can show that let's do it here's some of those links from before i just put them in the chat as well so we have a very simple power point it's called to the moon small steps to giant leaps and it just goes over the history of the us putting humans on the moon and it's uh you don't have to know anything about it i tried to make it as easy as possible for a complete novice to be able to present there's notes in there um there's also links to videos that you this is simple it doesn't have any videos or animations or anything like that but there are links to resources like that if you want to include them um but this has just got 15 slides and it gives an overview i just grabbed a couple of them here beginning with uh the soviets putting uh man in space and then uh president kennedy issuing this challenge to the nation and then it goes through how methodically we went through the steps and all the different pieces that we needed to put in place before we could actually get to the moon so uh step two was actually the three different types of human space flight that we used and um and it details all of those gives a little bit of interesting information about those um and it continues on into robotic exploration in the 90s and even currently to this day like ellar um lunar reconnaissance orbiter that um davis talking about that can actually see these um mostly the shadows of things on the moon yeah i don't think your power points are showing and you're not full screen oh no either oh that's no good okay hold on one second let me go to the front oh that's no good two shakes let me try that one more time okay thank you guys for letting us know okay did you see what do you see um how much uh it's just white uh blank right now how about now no it was working earlier it totally was okay let me try this again one more time thanks for letting me know you guys two shakes all right once more with feeling pretty much oh all right let's try this that's better better okay thank you all i appreciate it okay i think we got this now i'll go over it even more quickly than kind of reviewed what we were talking about uh but very simple uh mostly pictures on the sides with a little bit of some quotes or some words let's see what else we've got um yeah so talking about the steps of human space flight and then on to our robotic exploration each of these has notes about what they found and what years they were in case you have questions about it people follow up the questions there should be plenty of information in the more information piece um and it even moves on to the next step so exploring the moon as a launching place for getting to mars and out into the solar system so um it's like i said 15 slides and pretty darn simple let me just see oh yeah okay the next piece yeah all right all right well that's uh an overview of everything that's in the toolkit and now we want to hear from all of you on how you have either already used the toolkit resources how you're planning to use them and or any other events that you're planning to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing if you have a question about holding events or something you've wanted to try this is the group to ask between everyone on this call there's a wealth of creativity and knowledge and we encourage all of you to ask questions and to to share so we're going to open it up to uh hear from all of you i wanted to show one thing on here this was a really cool this was for international observe the moonlight which i didn't talk about it you should have gotten a save the date card in your kit but it's uh october fifth this year and this is from last year's international observe the moonlight in oklahoma city um they had a walking on the moon where they projected the moon i mean people come up you guys have come up with the best ideas um i'd love to hear what you guys are thinking about i just thought i'd share that one because i it always inspires me vivian is the power point up on the website yeah uh yeah the power point is okay yep okay great so it's in the uh um the toolkit outreach resource um on the night sky network website great and i will put those links in one more time just so you have them all all the resources are on the bit.ly slash nsn moon you can pretty much find everything you need right there they're all linked from there all right well let's see if we got those so bobette notes that they're going to use the toolkit next week with the library reading hours in three different cities we would love it if you would unmute yourself and tell us a little bit more about where and and how you're doing okay i'll unmute you and you'll have to say yes if you want to brian vivian can you hear me yes hello oh great uh i have two presentations for the moon coming up on the 19th and the 20th uh if i where to get a kit how can i get a kit when i get it in time ah yes so the 19th what they are around yes absolutely if you get it in time no problem um and uh are you tell me are you a solar system ambassador is that right i'm also i'm also with the old rich astronomical society oh so somebody i believe got that i'll have to check we'll have to see who at the old rich astronomical society got that if you didn't get that already um with your club uh send us an email and we'll let you know how to do that basically you just need to tell us about two events you've held in the past basically since the beginning of the year will be fine um tell us two events you've held uh on the website there's a way to log those in and um and then you'll automatically get it but if you send us an email we'll get it out faster we can do that the old rich definitely got the uh kit so i'm just going to see who uh probably went to jim jim broski the president there you go he's the one to check it that's good is it possible to still get one uh yeah so you can also order additional ones at no not at no cost but at cost um the kits at cost uh are in a link i'll just put it up again two shakes oh i think i'm already happy to let's see i'll just um the kits at cost are on the bottom link right there that i put up yeah and you can order different pieces of it as you want um yeah okay great thanks move in yeah totally okay we've got some other really great comments in uh the chat i'd love to hear from uh some of the some of you and uh out loud actually diana diana marshal we hosted an angles challenge last weekend um we had middle school and high school teams we had a total of five teams um and about 50 people overall come and they did really really well um i am going to be starting a june an fll junior team going into the new year i work with frc pretty extensively already but um i kind of want to work with the little ones and get that in started so i'm hoping that this will keep their interest throughout the summer there's a really neat activity um i'll put the link up called um moon bear shadow for really young ones i don't know if you've had a chance to play with that but it's just talking about exploring their shadows and it's kind of some astronomy ideas that are just for the very youngest three to five years old a lot of libraries are using that one i'll find that one and get back to you i can find that if you want to cool yeah um john all uh some people are asking for the links all of those are all of the things that you can print yourself are all on that top link so bit dot ly slash nsn moon um and and so this year's the summer's reading adventure um for libraries is a universe of learning and it's a lot about the moon so i know a lot of libraries are requesting events from solar system ambassadors from amateur astronomy clubs um and uh and so i know a lot of you are very very busy this summer with the moon and universe of stories um and then you want to tell us about your 15 presentations in june july when do you sleep is my one question you can unmute yourself if you'd like can you hear me now yes gotcha okay yes i am doing um well i did one on the um the moon uh at the local library already but i have 15 more to do i'm doing one calling um mostly on the history of the moon but as i said i grew up at huntsville so i remember as a child a lot of people don't realize they tested those rocket motors underground to begin with so we would be playing as children or whatever and it was like a mini earthquake the ground would shake our toys would move dishes would fall off and we just learned to live with the fact that you know that we're testing a rocket and um i tell about my father-in-law people don't realize when nasa came to huntsville in 53 they recruited men who had um that had degrees but it also they wanted electronic backgrounds and so my father-in-law been in the navy and got it and so there's a lot of things that i share that i just know from having lived in the 50s in huntsville i'm now in north garland as an ssa but uh i have a power point that goes from the mercury to the gemini the Apollo that my husband and i put together because he worked on the shuttles and um so we do extensive i do a lot of hands on i'm a hands-on science teacher and uh i would love to get the kit because i'm always looking for new things to add to my presentations um i speak regularly to a few of the museums here in our area i do mostly rural areas even though it says winston but um yeah i love what i do what's your area again i am in winston sale in north carolina okay fantastic i know that at least three clubs in north carolina already have this kit um yeah so if you want to partner with clubs who can help or there's so many of these resources you can just print out and then you don't you know it's super easy to use them in that way yeah great i'll look about thanks anybody else my nephew has raised her hand that was i think just enough who was that just enough okay yeah yeah fantastic and chris was saying he used chris um kiki i think you were saying you used the um moon story at a recent event you mentioned that earlier i thought that was great that they really enjoyed it it's one of my favorites because you get so much creativity from the kids and adults mary mary's doing something it looks like the uh angles uh challenges are uh all over the place oh cool you want to read it yeah this is from mary laura mary if you'd like to um speak up you're welcome to unmute yourself and tell us about it sounds amazing um you do a lot of work on the navajo and hopi reservations classroom lessons and star parties traveling to win slow public library on thursday that's great right next to um area not far yeah great yes um you can email us anytime at night sky info at astro society dot org if you have questions um we have some of these resources yeah you're welcome to um hit us up if you have any questions we can at least direct you to the people who might be able to help you with something if we are not able to yeah the night sky info at astro society dot org and dave just put it in the chat too so tell us about everything you're doing this is or questions you have like if you want to hold an event and you're not sure or you want to get in touch with an astronomy club if you are not uh an astronomer an amateur astronomer you're not part of a club and you are in a library and you have not reached out to your local club they're amazing um we have them all over the country and clubs often partner with libraries and museums and and we've had a lot of people mention that they're working with libraries and not just a single one and it sounds like most of them are working with multiple libraries right i think that's great i'm excited to see everybody i can see them on your computer hi there we go hi skip i know you're doing a million things you could uh go to uh gallery people in yours hello everyone who's that hello this is charrell web hi charrell hello i just wanted to introduce myself i am the new education specialist for the lunar and planetary institute in houston possibly and i just came back from a wonderful nasa training or nasa workshop that was led and partnered with sarnit um it was the namo workshop in columbus ohio and there were about 25 phenomenal librarians there from the area and because i'm new to this position um i did not have the uh perspective of how much the library is a cornerstone in the community and so being a part of the workshop it enlightened me in great measure and so um i was able to help to facilitate a number of wonderful workshop using the sarnit resources and to contribute to the summer program universal stories different things that were on the lunar and planetary institute website as well as sarnit they collaborated and the teachers walked away with a lot of um positive ideas and easily implementation of activities that they can use this summer that is so awesome welcome to the family thank you what did you do before classroom teacher eighth grade science for seven years awesome that's great we're so glad to have you the astronomy education community is pretty small and globally it's not that big so it's nice to see in your face well you know one of our favorite people of all time is christine shupla who is working with us yes so she is she is my she's my boss and i was there with her you've got a great boss i would i would tell her that you all say hello and that uh yeah and that she was missed yeah excellent okay so what do we got we've got the moon night observe the moon night yay oh um so i think babette cannot um unmute because um she's on the phone yeah she said that yeah yeah but um one of the inside activities they did for observe the moon night was to draw the images people see on parchment paper to flip up and down on the moon image and children are excited to see the shapes for themselves that's pretty cool i love that yeah there are a lot of great um steam activities so stem being science technology math and engineering engineering and math um we incorporate art into that and make it a steam event like their creator own moon story so so it sounds like she's just taking some tracing paper and then using this over that i think that's a wonderful idea right yeah yeah absolutely you can also i tried on um the moon oops where'd it go oh can you tell me that you can do rubbings this was kind of a cool one if you um get thin paper and a pencil you can do rubbings on your 3d printed things and you'll get um craters if you're kind of careful it's not super simple um like for example this one's four times um exaggerated in depth i guess um so but uh you can definitely make really cool rubbings and that's something that people have been getting into um i don't know if any of you have ever tried doing rubbings on gravestones or pot hole pot covers but that's something quite a good activity mostly has a really great um question here about access to the model files and then tom put a link up there too one of the really cool things is that moon trek you can actually if you get on there and we unfortunately brian day wasn't able to join us and back in april um and we're we're hoping to bring brian in for a post poem webinar next month uh in july and he'll go through and and one of the the and he'll go through and really demonstrate the the moon trek um but if you can find that um one of the tools that you can use there is you can generate your own files of anything you want on the moon and you can create a file that you can then download to a 3d printer and make your own model of just about anything on the moon that you want it doesn't have to be limited to these these uh you know the files that that nasa has kind of defined yeah that's what we did with this we wanted to get two um landing spots so we have 11 i think it's 11 and 17 so we got two of them on here so of course i didn't mark it for this version but i think it's marked on the other one so you can print any size any area that you want i can show it real quick if you want oh yeah if you want it show it to us yeah um second it takes a few minutes to download so i can't show you that part but yeah there we go it'll least um you can see how you start you go to uh let's just start from the beginning go to uh trek dot nasa dot gov like a second load up whatever the news is a lot of treks we're looking for the moon but in theory it loads without doing a rendering air one second um while you're getting that set up marie said she's an archaeologist and a solar system ambassador and is excited to use the moon stories from around the world that's great i'm thrilled that you're excited zoom in and out in the moon here just pick this greater if you're snowman um so the tool for generating the files is in the right hand corner of this little uh wrench then you click a 3d print file so you draw a rectangle and uh click submit it's pretty easy you go like so you want to grab this little piece of terrain you can also um you can adjust the resolution and a lot of folks um kind of prefer exaggerating the height a little bit so if you want to give it a boost as far as contrast is concerned you can do that in front of stay super accurate keep it to one let's do four um and then it generates that little square as a 3d file which you can then send to your printer you get a little download prompt when it's all done um that's all there is to it yeah my mom could do it as my grandma would say though she she's like she actually knows how to use the computer better than my mom so she's like why do people always say that great well we're coming up at the end of the hour so there's anything any other burning questions you have or thoughts you want to include anybody want to say anything we'll leave some space I do have one quick question yes okay um is there a website that we can go to that has like like a bunch of different activities that we can do I'm looking more like I'm the director of an observatory here in Holton Kansas and uh we do a lot of uh educational programs so I'm just trying to uh what I want to do is I want to use that whole day on July 20th for kids and parents to come out and do different things you know related to the moon and we are also going to use uh they're going to bring their cell phones out take pictures with our 24 inch scope and stuff so we're going to have all sorts of fun stuff but I want to get more activities geared toward the um oh great school kids middle school and so parents can participate as well um so we have um right on the link that we sent it takes you to the night sky network website and it's one of our outreach resources you can search on the right hand side by topic so if you just put in moon it would give you a list of probably a dozen or so activities and they tell you what age is good for and whether it needs to be night time or daytime inside or outside that kind of thing so you can narrow it down by what you're looking for um and uh and it's a simple use yeah thanks Skip he was like it's called the night sky network oh we got a other couple of other folks I was supposed to some extra activity resources to that right and lpi we sent you to the uh there we have a link from there on that website that we uh on the night sky network website that we offered and the lpi that has all those stories the audio files they have tons of great resources too I don't see if you go there yeah there's a reason they're called the lunar and planetary yeah they have a lot of resources for sure yeah and stick around we have a giveaway platforming next so it looks like we're uh about at the end here and so um maybe take one more comment from someone if we've got uh anything else and then we'll wrap it up for the evening thanks to all of you who came yeah all right so let me uh get prepared here so you can find this webinar along with many others on the night sky network website in the outreach resources section each webinars page also features additional resources and activities we will post tonight's presentation on the night sky network youtube channel as well as uh the night sky network website in the next few days thank you for joining this evening but don't go anywhere coming up is our drive