your welcome to borrow the PST Rod, that's always a winner, also when you do your talk, is the moon up, you know like early morning type talk. Remember to be interactive with the kids, they like that, and never, ever show them fear, they will eat you alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a set of laminated planets, (and yes I have Pluto in that!!), that I use that has data on the back to help me remember data the kids always ask after, then after I introduce the planets I pick kids to become the planet (note if possible I do this outside) then I space them out to try and show them how big/small the universe is (that's about 10 minutes worth) then show them the sun and moon. the moon get them every time, but the sun in Halpha really hooks them. Don't worry you will end up with about 4 or 5 other classes coming through looking through the telescope. they did for my daughter!! I have 137 kids look through the 5" MC at the moon and the PST at the sun, one line up on each. I instructed the teacher to mind one scope while I manned the other. may take 20 - 30 minutes and continually talking to the kids. Also provided a colouring in sheet and a puzzle sheet with questions and answers on it, they had to unjumble the words to get the words required for the find a word. I think the teacher thought I was a bit thick until I had finished the lesson
she was right though), mind you you have to keep an eye on the time. The key is keep the kids involved! best of luck
