Title: Celestial objects
Target Audience: Primary School Students

1. An introduction to stars and constellations: using stars to orient yourself in time and space;
2. The mythological understanding of stars and constellations and the origin of their names;
3. Students are taken to the telescope;
4. An introduction to the workings of the dome and telescope;
5. A discussion about the influence of the Moon on the Earth (if the Moon is visible via the telescope);
6. A demonstration of one to five astronomical objects through the telescope:
a) stars;
b) planets;
c) binary stars;
d) stellar clusters;
e) nebulae
f) galaxies;
7. A Q&A game:
a) Why do stars twinkle?
b) What are our immediate neighbouring planets within the solar system?
c) Where is the edge of the Universe?
8. A glimpse of astronauts’ life;
9. Questions and Answers.

Title: The evolution and planets of our star
Target Audience: Secondary School Students

1. An introduction to stars and constellations: using stars to orient yourself in time and space;
2. The mythological understanding of stars and constellations and the origin of their names;
3. Students are taken to the telescope;
4. An introduction to the workings of the dome and telescope;
5. A demonstration of one to five astronomical objects through the telescope:
a) stars;
b) planets;
c) binary stars;
d) star clusters;
e) nebulae;
f) galaxies;
6. A discussion on the influence of the Moon on the Earth (if the Moon is visible via the telescope);
7. A demonstration of planets through the telescope accompanied by an explanation of conditions there:
a) temperature;
b) composition of the atmosphere;
c) atmospheric pressure;
c) atmospheric phenomena;
e) typical landscape;
8. We’ll visit distant star clusters with the help of the telescope;
9. Observation of nebulae, getting an insight into the future of the Sun;
10. Questions and Answers.

Title: From the Earth to the edge of the Universe
Target Audience: Secondary School Seniors

1. An introduction to stars and constellations: using stars to orient yourself in time and space;
2. The mythological understanding of stars and constellations and the origin of their names;
3. Students are taken to the telescope;
4. An introduction to the workings of the dome and telescope;
5. A demonstration of one to five astronomical objects through the telescope:
a) stars;
b) planets;
c) binary stars;
d) star clusters;
e) nebulae;
f) galaxies;
6. A discussion about the influence of the Moon on the Earth and the complexity of manned missions to the Moon (if the Moon is visible via the telescope);
7. We’ll visit our neighbouring planets with the help of the telescope, where we’ll explore the possibility of life in the solar system and exoplanets;
8. Watching star clusters, we’ll try to imagine what our ownstar cluster could look like;
9. Watching nebulae, we’ll learn about the past and future of our solar system;
10. A discussion about the challenges of watching distant objects;
11. What are exoplanets? How diverse are they and how aretheyfound?
12. Questions and Answers.

Title: On the brink of the unknowable.
Target Audience: Adults, Students, Families

1. An introduction to stars and constellations: using stars to orient yourself in time and space;
2. The mythological understanding of stars and constellations and the origin of their names;
3. Students are taken to the telescope;
4. An introduction to the workings of the dome and telescope;
5. A demonstration of one to five astronomical objects through the telescope:
a) stars;
b) planets;
c) binary stars;
d) star clusters;
e) nebulae;
f) galaxies;
6. A demonstration of the Moon, explaining its influence on our planet. A discussion about the conditions on the Moon’s surface and engineering challenges in explorations on the Moon (if the Moon is visible via the telescope);
7. We’ll watch neighbouring planets through the telescope, discussing the complexity of space travel;
8. The search of extraterrestrial life and exoplanets;
9. An overview of the size and age of the Universe;
10. With the help of the telescope, we’ll observe star clusters and will try to image our own location in space from a different perspective;
11. An overview of recent changes in the model of the Universe and the last remaining unanswered questions;
12. The birth and death of stars, as witnessed by their nebulae;
13. The size of galaxy discs and the mysteries hidden in their centres;
14. Questions and Answers.

Author: Lithuanian Ethnocosmology Museum Educator
Edgaras Zaronskis