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Article: Lesson shoots for the stars.
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- Tribune (Seymour, IN)
- Article date:
- January 19, 2007
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Byline: January Wetzel
Jan. 19--It wasn't hard to tell that 5-year-old Ayriana Robinett liked looking at the stars. Crawling out of a gray inflatable dome that could have been confused with an alien spaceship, she couldn't hide her excitement over what she had seen. "It was amazing," she exclaimed. "Just like being in outer space." Although it looked and sounded like it could take off at any minute, the spaceship was actually a portable planetarium set up in the gymnasium at Emerson Elementary School. On the inside was a circular room large enough to fit an entire class of students. From the center, fifth-grade teacher Mary Sentz dimmed the lights and ...