A small team of HAA’rs visited a Cub pack near the north end of Oakville on Leap Day (Feb 29) to teach astronomy to about 25 enthusiastic kids. This is the second time in recent history that the HAA brought astronomy to a group of cubs (also did a camp in Jan) in the Oakville area.

A partial group shot of the cubs we taught astronomy to.

John, Jim, Joe and Don covered all aspects of the cub badge requirements including:
– Locating the North Star (for navigation).
– Learn about some of the constellations and some folklore.
– Planets (including the usual talk about why Pluto isn’t anymore).
– Meteors and comets.
– Moon phases and how the Moon affects the Earth.
– Basics of how telescopes work.
– And how to use a planisphere/starfinder.

John has the kids enraptured.

Jim passing around meteorites.

The kids were really good and we all enjoyed ourselves. They had lots of questions and it was clear they learned a lot. A bright and fun bunch.

Don covering the basics of constellations and planets.

Our thanks go to their leaders Latif and Jasmine for contacting us and asking for our participation.
Larger/higher resolution photos available on our Facebook page:
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