Pre-K to First grade

Browse through our show listing and make a reservation to get started on scheduling your show. These shows are designed for students in preschool through second grade. We do some outreach to schools, though availability is limited. While you are on campus, consider taking the kids just across the perimeter drive and walking the scale model solar system!

In My Backyard

In My Backyard

Grade: Pre-K to 2

Digital Remaster

Let's explore the night sky from our own backyards! Through the use of storytelling, poetry, and songs, children are encouraged to participate in the show while learning about the seasons, Ursa Major, planets, meteors, and the Moon. Narrated by Fred Penner.

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One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure

One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure

Grade: Pre-K to 2

Fulldome Presentation

Explore the night sky with our friends from Sesame Street™. Join Big Bird, Elmo, and Hu Hu Zhu as they take a trip to the Moon. See how the Moon is different from the Earth and learn how to find the Big Dipper and North Star from your backyard. This interactive show was coproduced by the Adler Planetarium, Sesame Workshop, the Beijing Planetarium, and Liberty Science Center and comes to us through a grant from the PNC Foundation. This show is available in English and Spanish.

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Santa's Secret Star

Santa's Secret Star

Grade: Pre-K to 2

Fulldome Presentation

How will Santa find his way home? You, too, can find Santa's secret star in the sky in this holiday show about the winter sky. Learn about the North Star and how the sky changes as we travel northward.

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Shapes in the Sky

Shapes in the Sky

Grades: Pre-K to 2

Live-narrated

Our popular "Prairie Skies" show, featuring the current constellations, is now in a form for very young stargazers. First, we'll play a game, finding shapes in an image, then expand to find shapes among the stars in the night sky. The show finishes off with a new fulldome feature called "Space Shapes" where we look at the shape of the Sun, Moon and planets. "Is it round like a ball or round like a pancake?"

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Sun, Moon, and Stars

Sun, Moon, and Stars

Grade: Pre-K to 2

Live-narrated

The youngest stargazers are introduced to the spinning Earth and the night sky, plus pay a visit to the Moon. "Sun, Moon, and Stars" was designed for first grade teachers in the Unit 4 district who use the unit of the same name. The program content can be altered to support your classroom instruction.

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The Little Star That Could

The Little Star That Could

Grade: K to 3

Fulldome Presentation

Journey with Little Star, an average yellow star, in search of planets of his own to protect and warm. Along the way, he meets other stars, learns what makes each star special, why they are different colors and how they combine to form star clusters and galaxies.  Let’s hope a delightful cast of characters including Pearl and Big Daddy can help “Little Star” find some planets!  

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