Primary students from Turkey, Portugal, and Lithuania participated in activities to learn astronomy during a meeting in Kaunas. The activities included a performance depicting the solar system created by Lithuanian students, felting celestial bodies from wool which Portuguese girls especially enjoyed, folding paper aliens, watching a film about the solar system, making craters like on the moon, pretending to be astronauts and launching a rocket, modeling the solar system, and making the sun and stars out of clay. All the students had a very good time participating in the engaging astronomy activities.

1. Dive in the sky. Meeting in
kaunas. Activities for
primary school Students.

2. During the meeting, primary students from Turkey, Portugal and Lithuania
had opportunities to participated in different activities, which promoted
to learn astronomy. Firstly, they saw the performance ”The solar system”.

3. All preparations and decorations were made by Lithuanian students.
They made eight planets, the sun and the moon by themselfs.

4. The performance was very interesting. All students
could move like planets. They were very happy.

5. While teachers and secondary students
participated in a conference, primary
pupils had a lot of activities.
Felting celestial bodies from wool was
exciting activity. Portugal girls liked it
very much. They made a beautiful sun.

6. The next activity was folding from paper. Students made aliens.
Lithuanian student Dovydas showed how to make the alien.

7. Lately we all became scientists. We saw a short film about the solar system.

8. We were making craters like in the Moon.

9. We tried to be astronauts. We launched a rocket. The kids were interested.

10. Our solar system. We imitated the solar system.

11. We made the sun and stars from clay.

12. We drank tea and had very good time! Everyone was happy!