Planetarium student Madison Rechtzigel live streams her very first Space Story Read Aloud. The MSUM Planetarium has been looking into expanding our reach through creating virtual content. Our very first step into live-streamed content was showcased today by Madison. Several of the Planetarium student staff are working on a series of webisodes on various topics to share through our social […]
Planetarium director Sara Schultz and science education student Erick Hernandez presented Sept. 25 and 26 to the Middle Atlantic Planetarium Society (MAPS) annual virtual conference. Schultz presented to the members about her doctoral research on strategic questioning in the planetarium. Schultz and Hernandez presented a workshop based on that same research which Hernandez had been developing over the summer as […]
Dr. Schultz, Planetarium Director, publishes in Journal of Astronomy & Earth Sciences Education. The paper, Who Are The Planetarians? A Demographic Survey Of Planetarium – Based Astronomy Educators, can be found here.
Planetarium Director, Sara Schultz, completed her doctoral degree this summer from the University of Wyoming. Her degree is in Curriculum & Instruction with a focus on Science Education, in particular, using the planetarium as a teaching tool. Her doctoral research investigated the nature of formative assessment in the form of assessment conversations (i.e. strategic questioning) present in planetarium presentations across […]
The months of April and May are typically the busiest of the whole year for the MSUM Planetarium. With the pandemic, that has all changed. However, director, Sara Schultz, provided a mini virtual field trip for the dozens of Moorhead kindergarteners who would normally have been coming during their “Space Week.” This year, the field trip looked a little different, […]