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I have to admit I am kind of a astronomy/physics wannabe. My downtime reading includes the latest in astrophysics research (I don’t understand it all, but it is fascinating!) and books like Quantum Physics for Dummies. Over Christmas break, I read the Apologia Astronomy textbook for fun. Please don’t tell any of the other hockey moms. They will kick me out of the club.
So when I saw this, I got so excited!
Astronomy Science Kit
The new Astronomy Science kit from Apologia is amazing!! First of all, it’s an astronomy science kit! Those are hard to come by. This kit includes the supplies necessary for the 42 activities found in the Apologia 2nd Edition Astronomy textbook, plus it has 21 bonus activities. That’s 63 total!
What is even more awesome about this astronomy science kit, is that it is actually a stand alone resource that you can use with the Apologia Astronomy textbook or on its own. The kit not only contains activity supplies, but includes a complete, full color, spiral-bound Science Kit Guide. This guide contains the background information your student needs to understand what concept they are going to learn during each activity. This kit is perfect for an astronomy unit study or Charlotte Mason science resource.
The Giveaway
I really want you to get the Apologia Astronomy Science Kit. Enter the contest below and one lucky reader will win one!
I love the colors of the planets! ~ Mady age 5. She reads about space all the time and is always spouting of random facts. She also loves to draw pictures of the solar system including red and blue giants, super novas, etc. She loves it.
We love the moon!
The vastness of it and learning the similarities and differences in all the planets.
My son is fascinated by Saturn! He’s always asking to look up information about the ringed planet.
My kids are fascinated by the stars. We attended a star party at an observatory and they have been interested ever since. This looks amazing!
My daughter has stared at the moon and stars in wonder since she was a baby.
I love how vast and mysterious out space is. There is so much we don’t know.
My boys are obsessed with all things space! My oldest purchased 3-part Austronomy DVD for fun.
I probably should proofread when posting and teaching math at the same time! Whoops….
Sounds amazing
My son is really interested in black holes. I was looking for a resource to teach him and just ran across apologia.
We love everything space! It is just so fascinating!
This would be a huge help to us as we head to SE Asia next year, & I’ll be homeschooling 3 kids. It looks awesome!
The enormity of it!
We like to get our telescope out and look at the moon and planets.
My son LOVES astronomy! He is fascinated and has been for years by outer space. His room is decked out in planets and rocket ships and his bookshelf lined with books on his favorite subject. We have the Apologia astronomy book and he has flipped through that book until he has almost worn it out. He even asks for bedtime stories to come from the astronomy book. We are planning to study more in depth this semester from the astronomy book so the timing of this giveaway is perfect! Thanks for the chance to win! (PS – his cousin is a real life physicist so I think the love for science run strong through his veins!)
I love this kit! I am terrible at teaching Science so I would probably find this to be something I can learn from as the parent as well!
My five year old is obsessed with anything outer space right now. My almost nine year old is interested in it.
He loves to dream about visiting everything he sees through his telescope!
The beauty, majesty, and sheer size of space is what fascinates us. It’s so huge and we’re so small.
And we love Apologia and the Homeschool Scientist.
I absolutely love sharing the constellations with my children. It reminds me of the amazingly big God we serve.
My son has just started getting into astronomy, he is enjoying learning about the differences in the planets right now.
The stars and the constellations.
my kids love watching the changes in the moon- ages 11, 9, 7
It’s so beautiful and something new is being found all the time! It shows the vast greatness of God
My 8-year-old loves the numbers! How far away each planet is from earth, how big the moon is, how long is a day on Mars, etc.
We love the intricacy and the individualness of our universe.
The enormous size of space fascinates all my kids. And they like the different colors of the planets.
I love that our children and understand and see the sovereignty and glory of God through studying astronomy.
This would be great!
My 8 year old loves everything astronomy. We are discussing moon phases in home school and gibbous waning vs waxing. He tried to find Orion and Mercury every night
My kids love astronomy. When asked what they like best about space, they like the explosions (supernova’s) and Saturn’s rings because they are beautiful. It gets them started and then they jump from one thing to the next and can spend hours looking up space stuff. This kit would be a great supplement.
What fascinates us about space? EVERYTHING! I’d have to say our family is a little obsessed. We often have discussions about space, physics and science related subjects over dinner… and breakfast… in the car, on walks, at the library, the science centre… pretty much all day, every day. The first thing my son wanted to grow up to be was an “alien doctor”, which has over the years evolved into xenobiologist and astrophysicist.
We need a science program this year and this would be exactly what my kids are into right now.
My son loves everything science related. He recently told me he want to be an astrobiologist. I had to look that one up 🙂
We homeschool and this kit would be amazing to win!! Me and my son really love astronomy and outerspace! I love it for it’s endlessness and beauty! There is so much to be learned and nothing quite makes you realize how small you and your problems are than studying space! My son loves the moon and he is beginning to learn the planets and he is loving it so far! This is the first thing he has truly shown an interest in!
The Milky Way Galaxy is amazing to think about in its vastness. We are enjoying learning more about each planet.
Wow, this kit looks amazing!! So excited they have put this kit together. What a great homeschool resource!
My son is always wanting to know what is out there. He is always reading and watching space videos. I think he just likes the idea that God created something so massive.
My children received a telescope for Christmas. Since then they have been fascinated with our solar system and figuring out what stars and planets they can see.
We love astronomy. Every lesson turns into praise – our God is so big.
I have four kids who love learning about space. But my 6yr old loves it the most. He has autism and learned the order of the planets watching storybots on netflix. They are a good resource for teaching specials,littles or just about any kiddos with a catchy tune. I know he would love all the hands on activities. This would be so beneficial to us. Thank you so much for the opportunity!
My girls love how they can show the earth isn’t billions of years old based on putting together bits of info about space.
The stars that show Gods wonderful creation.
My Kindergartener is fascinated by all the stars, and loves to look at the moon
My daughter says she loves the way the stars make pictures.
She spends her evenings in the warmer weather outside trying to find as many as she can and she has even made up a few of her own just for fun.
Everything… We are always discussing what could the planets be made of … How stars are formed. We are science geeks 😁
It is so fascinating that God could create the universe out of nothing. There is also so many amazing things about space to learn and study.
My son is obsessed with space. He would like to be a an aeronautical engineer or an astrophysicist. We are basically all space all the time. 😉
Looks like a great kit! My kids are fascinated by outer space. This would be a great addition to our homeschool!
I asked my daughter & her answer was gravity & being able to float. For me this amazing universe God created so amazingly fascinating
My kids would love this they are always stargazing.
The amazing and awesome works of God.
My kindergartner loves seeing the moon changing throughout the month!
We love watching for planets and meteors from our backyard. We joke about one day making an observatory at the top of our mountain.
We love the stars and moon.
We absolutely LOVE Apologia’s Science curriculums! We have been planning to do Astronomy next but finances are tight so this would be a blessing! Thank you for posting it!
My son loves dark matter and the fairly new research that has come out recently.
Looking at the stars and planets we are so amazed at God’s awesomeness! Our kids love learning astronomy.
This looks great!!
The vastness of space and enormity of it all! Creation of space alone is so overwhelming!
I am always in awe of the vastness of the universe!
I’m not real sure what set it off but these kiddos are space obsessed right now! The oldest is currently sitting next to me writing a story about a pig in space!
Astronomy is one of my kids favorite science subjects.
Everything! Especially black holes and the milky way.
These days, we are gearing up to learn about the planets. Personally, I am interested in the edge of the universe, it stretching and how it can be leke a “scroll.”
We just ordered the Astronomy curriculum. My 3rd child is especially excited about all things space and the other 3 are excited with him to neb able to do this unit!! I can’t wait. It would be grand to win the science kit!
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Psalms 19:1
Limitless possibilities for understanding all that there is and all that ever was.
My daughter is very interested in space for so many reasons.. starting with how big it is.. she loves learning about different constellations..
The vastness of space is mind boggling. We just love everything about astronomy.
My kids are amazed that so much of everyday normal life (gravity, air we breathe, cycles of light and dark, etc.) are different in space!
We love all the planets and what is unknown.
How big it is! And the incredible design behind it!
We love it all, but especially the meteor showers and planets.
We are big science lovers here too. Already use the apologia books. This looks fantastic
My kids (4 and 5 years old) are in complete awe of the vast amount of stars we can see and yet that there are innumerable more throughout the sky. We often see how many we can count, just for kicks and giggles;) Their Daddy teaches us about the constellations that he knows about in an effort to advance our little knowledge of God’s grand creation that we are able to enjoy!
Even more incredible is that our God knows the name of every single one of them, as stated in the Bible at Psalm 147:4 “He counts the number of the stars; He calls all of them by name.”
Our co-op just decided to do this for science next year! We have the 1st edition, and I love the creation confirmations. My favorite thing about space is shooting stars.
My kids love astronomy! My husband has been a fan of it all of his life and began getting them interested a few years back. They have joined our local astronomy club and strive to learn all they can. This kit would fascinate them beyond belief. Thanks for the great giveaway opportunity!
My ten year old daughter has always been fascinated with astronomy and wants to be an astronaut or work at NASA. Her favorite planet is Jupiter and knows just about everything about it. We have studied Apologia’s Zoology 2 and Botany the past 2 years. I have been waiting to do Astrology until this fall so we can visit nearby Johnson Space Center to suppliment what we are learning.
How HUGE it is!
My daughter loves learning about astronomy. I find it interesting, but don’t have near enough knowledge. This would be an amazing set to own.
Not sure exactly why it fascinates them but from the 2 year old all the way to the teenager it seems to peak their interest.
My son loves outer space. I think its the astronauts and the space ships that he loves the most.
My kids love everything about science, the vastness of astronomy always impresses them because they see how small we are and how mighty God is.
All of it! God’s creation. My son is fascinated with the sun.
We believe (as Einstein did) that the study of science brings us closer to understanding God. My 3 boys are so fascinated by the enormity and beauty of space. They imagine traveling there, but for now reading about experimenting at home is as good as it gets! 🙂 We would love to win, thanks for hosting this giveaway!
This would be so much fun.
We love looking at the stars and the moon 😊
The vastness of the universe fascinates them.
My daughter is obsessed with the sun and the moon. She loves to look at the moon every night and see how it changes.
We are looking forward to studying the astronauts and spaceships
We love studying the planets and stars – especially the constellations.
My daughter is currently interested in finding out more about the dwarf planets.
My daughter is into the phases of the moon right now. Our whole family is amazed by the expanse of God’s creation and how small we are compared to it.
How massive it is!
We love the stars.
We like the stars.
What fascinates us is that we still haven’t discovered all of space…yet God knows exactly how many stars there are.
It’s incredible to know how vast outer space is!
The beauty of God’s design.
We love the moon & stars!!
The order of planets is our favorite part of astronomy!
My children are fascinated by the planets and the idea that God designed space and how massive it is.
My boys and I LOVE astronomy! My son received some high powered binocolara for his birthday to begin our entry-level stargazing! We are saving up for a telescope! Thanks for the giveaway! So exciting!
My family just traveled 1/2 way across the country to go to Kennedy Space Center two days ago. My girls loved it we wish we could have spent days there. My 5 year old wants to work on the shuttle, this kit looks amazing!
My son says he loves that space is always expanding and I love the new discoveries and pictures that challenge our assumptions.
My kids and I are facinated with the enormancy of space & the beauty of another aspect og God’s creation. My son has always been more facinated than the rest of us. I’m not sure his specific draw but I certainly understand it.
This year we have looked at the history of astronomy. It’s always been fascinating to me. I love looking at the night sky and trying to figure out what constellations I am looking at and what planets you can see. It’s amazing that things are continuing to be learned about the expanse we call space. God is amazing!
I really think that astronomy makes us contemplate our own exhistance. I love learning more about the night sky from constellations to new moons, stars, and planets.
We enjoy learning about the stars and constellations. We live in the country with very little lighting and spend many evenings staring at the night sky.
My boys like learning about all the different types of stars.
Our son loves anything to do with space. He learned a bunch on his own but this kit would really help him!
My son loves the constellations and trying to find them
My daughter loves to learn about planets.
My kids are amazed by its beauty, vastness and it’s creator. We got to see the international space station fly by recently and it really sparked interest in my kids. (And I 😉) we would LOVE To dive into this curriculum especially since the science we have now isn’t working for us this year.
I love how the closer we study astronomy, the bigger God and His universe become, how small we are but how important we are in His eyes.
My 6 year old loves looking st the night sky and finding the “shapes” in the sky!
We are fascinated by the beautiful colors in the pictures taken by the Hubble Telescope
Planets! We love the interesting ways they are different and the new things we learn as we explore them.
One loves the moon and stars, the other is fascinated with rockets and “space men”!
One of Henry’s first interest was the planets. He’s known the planets since he was 2 and can pick them out by sight. He would be so over the moon (pun intended) about this astronomy science kit!
I love how much the planets and stars look from my house! Ian age 9…He was so surprised at how many more stars he saw when we camped in the mountains!
We love that there are many things to discover and observe.
The stars.
The vastness of outer space is one of the many fascinating things we love! All that we know about what’s in space is just scratching the surface.
I teach a homeschool co-op class using Apologia science, this year, it’s astronomy! my kids and my students are always flabbergasted by how HUGE it is and yet how God has made it all work together!
What fascinates me about outer space is that there is so much mystery there. I mean, as humans in this period of our evolution, it’s very unlikely that anyone will really know what all is out there in any of our lifetimes. There may be nothing, there may be other civilizations…..we will never know. The vastness of space boggles my mind.
It is infinite.
I’d say it’s the same for all of us: the vastness of it with the known and unknown. It’s mind boggling to think our galaxy is so enormous that we only ever see a tiny portion of it when we look up at the night sky. It’s fascinated me my whole life and I hope I’m passing that fascination down to my children.
The endlessness of the beauty
Three kids and each seem to enjoy something different about space. One likes the idea of being an astronaut, another likes the facts about the planets and the solar system, and the third enjoys the history of discovery and the creation by God.
I homeschool my daughter and am just introducing Apologia Science Astronomy, and this would be a wonderful kit to really get her involved and hands-on!
The sun fascinates my kiddos, because it is so hot they love to talk abut ‘ how hot’
My 11 to daughter loves astronomy. She studies the stars and astrology patterns as part of her science curriculum so winning this would be a dream come true for her because she is a very hands on learner. Her favorite thing about astronomy are the birth are stars and all the colors of the universe. Thank you for the opportunity to win.
Studying space is so vast. Just when we think we’ve learned everything, we learn something new. We especially love the moon. Whenever there is a full moon, family and friend wide, we send texts to go out and look up at the moon. Which is pretty neat, because no matter where we all are, we’re looking up at the same time!
the sheer size of the universe is mind blowing
What fascinates you or your kids about outer space? They are amazed that God could make it all so beautiful!
This is awesome! My kids would absolutely love this!
They are fascinated that there are things in space that we can’t even see.
My 8 year old wants to be an astronaut and travel to Mars.
Holy Toledo! This is amazing! Thanks for chance to win:)
We are amazed with the distances and sizes of everything. We’re having fun studying astronomy this year!
We love learning about God’s creation! Learning about astronomy is so much fun!
Just how it can go on forever..thanks for the chance to win.
My kids love the moon!
What fascinates my kids about space seems to be the vastness and the unknown.
My kids are fascinated by the moon
I can’t wrap my head around the little bit of information we have. I cannot begin to imagine what we don’t know. I can’t even put anything into words!
I am fascinated by the moon and constellations. My son likes to learn about Mars and gravity.
We have had wonderful discussions about the extreme vastness of the universe. We would love the opportunity to do some hands-on activities to further explore the great beyond.
My son loves everything Solar system! this would be a great addition to our exploration! Thanks for the opportunity!
Planning to use this curriculum next year and my girls would love this kit to go with it!
Thank you for the opportunity to win! My son was enthralled with space as a tiny tot until the gov’t shut down the space program:( I think everyone can’t help but be in awe of all that God created!
We are intrigued with constellations!
My boys get really excited about astronomy and how God made each planet unique (just like them :)).
Space is fascinating. We love to go out and look at the stars at night. In the country, we don’t have all the lights and everything in the sky just pops out at ya, Beautiful!
We LOVE learning about our solar system and beyond!
My kids think that the sun is interesting.
My kids are into the stars. I want to teach them more about the constellations.
I just started this with me daughter! We are loving it and this kit would be so helpful!!
The possibilities of what is out there is intriguing. I love to marvel at the fact that God made all of this beauty and we are such a small part of it all.
The kids and I enjoy talking about how God created everything and how absolutely huge the universe is. We saw an IMAX movie about space (from the point of view of the International Space Station) and it was so neat to discuss how relatively small Earth and our moon are compared to the sun and the rest of the universe. I can’t wait to show them more when we study Apologia’s Astronomy. Thank you for offering this giveaway!
Our favorite study has been about the stars. Love studying about all God has created!
I love discovering the wonders in deep space.
Comparing the size of many stars and planets to earth has always been so amazing to me!
The moon and planets!
Awesome kit
My daughter has asked to study space as our next science topic. I think she’s fascinated by the vastness and possibilities of space, knowing what’s out there but not being able to see it for yourself.
I love to study the size of all the planets and just how awesome our God is to create such an awesome thing!
My kids and I are fascinated at how macrocosms can appear to mimic microcosms. We like to look at space at different levels of magnification and compare it to the same for the human eye etc.
My three children are fascinated about the vast expanse of the Universe and love learning as they try to unlock it’s “secrets”.
We are fascinated in the vast beauty of space. My kids have endless questions…
I grew up with astronauts as my role models and watched shuttle and rocket launches in person. I think space is simple amazing and we’re incredibly blessed to have the ability to explore it.
This looks fabulous!
How much of it has not even been explored is fascinating! Just the wonder of it all is glorious!!!
What an awesome giveaway! Our homeschool group went to the planetarium at the University of Texas and my son is stuck in outer space mode. I am so happy I found this science blog and good luck to the winner.
My kids are fascinated by the planets and the stars. At least once a summer we drive out to the country where lights are few and far between just to look up at the sky and see what constellations we can spot.
Everything, I grew up on the Space Coast of Florida & had friends who worked at Cape Kennedy. My son LOVES Star Wars so he’s all about everything SPACE. =)
Thank you for doing this! We enjoy studying space! We took a trip to Kennedy Space Center while we were in FL and it sparked a new interest in space. We are fascinated by the constellations and identifying them.
Thank you for this. Looks like some fun
It is one field of science that the average person can’t really explore in a hands-on way. The most fascinating thing is the sheer vastness- it’s hard to even comprehend.
How great! my kids have been asking alot of questions about the solar system lately! this would work out well!!
My son is wanting to know more about stars and galaxies.
One of my sons is especially fascinated by outer space for an unusual reason – he is paralyzed from the hips down. In space he could move around without a wheelchair. Besides, who doesn’t want to vising the moon or explore the stars?
The vastness of space is mind boggling!
This would be a great curriculum to win. My children would love to do the solar system. They have been wanting to do this for so long. They love the planets all of them.
My 15 yo says everything about space fascinates him, but more specifically, he’s really interested in black holes.
When Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet, I think the kids felt they needed to stand up for Pluto so they started learning all they could.
Fantastic! Exactly what we are studying!!😀
My daughter loves searching the night sky for constellations!
I can’t think of anything about this subject that DOESN’T interest EVERYONE in our household! My twin dds love looking at the stars & moon & trying to identify constellations, we LOVE watching meteor showers & they’re always on the lookout for falling/shooting stars. I can’t pick just one thing that intriges them! The universe and everything up there/out there in the sky just amazes them, and I know they’d love to learn more about it, (& they would also love to be able to show off everything “new” they’ve learned!!)
I’d love to win this for them, as everything I’ve seen, heard, & read about Apologia’s products for homeschooling has been excellent! I don’t think I’ve heard one parent complain!
This looks absolutely amazing, & I know my dds would love it. Thank you for the opportunity! Good luck to everyone entering the contest😊
Black holes!
My son is fascinated with other planets, stars, and the possibility of life on other planets!
My kids have always been fascinated with space. Everything from learning about the planets, to studying the constellation, and of course, astronauts! We usually spend at least a few weeks every spring focusing on some aspect of space.
Just got a telescope for Christmas. Love looking at planets
Everything. She wants to be an astronaut!!
I would love to win this!
My 5yo is determined to see a shooting star, even though she’ll immediately inform anyone who is listening that it’s not 3a star, but a meteorite. Haha!
Seeing the moon up close in pictures blows their minds. The shapes and colors of the galaxies and stars.
Everything!
I would love this for my almost-12-years-old daughter….she is crazy about science!
I always loved studying about the planets and all that is “out there.” I would love to have this to use to help my 2 daughters develop a love for it too.
We love studying space because there are so many aspects. There are opportunities to learn so many different kinds of sciences. We are currently doing a unit on terraforming Mars that covers engineering, geometry, creativity, physics, chemistry, and botany. The possibilities are endless!
This kit looks amazing! My daughter would love it.
Thank you for this exciting giveaway. I have two kids ages 10 and 12, they both love love love Space related objects. We also think that God is so smart and put space, the Universe, galaxies, etc. in place, so we could enjoy it all.
This looks amazing! I love how its all in one package and the work is pretty much done for us. All we have to do is have fun learning!
Great give away! We’re studying astronomy this year and my daughter is loving learning about the different planets and their composition and planet surfaces.
My son loves talking about God, how He created the universe, how He knows every star created just as He knows each one of us. He loves how much details God placed in each planet and how He created Earth with everything we’d need to thrive.
Haven’t used apologia yet but would love to try them!
We love imagining what it would be like to go to space. And watching and learning about different space phenomena, like meteor showers, eclipses, etc.
Thanks for the opportunity! My children love the realness of astronomy and seeing and learning.
His curiosity is insatiable! His walls and ceiling are dark blue with light speckles and glow-in-the-dark stars, so he sleeps in outer space.
My girl loves learning about space, planets & stars. Its all so big making us feel so little! so much to explore & learn thank you
One of the amazing things we love to think about and learn about space is the vastness of it, how the stars are endless. Where does space begin and end?
My eleven year old son is enthralled with all of it!
My children and I enjoy the marvel of it all and exploring together how wondrous is this universe God created.
Fascinated with the moon.
We love the variety between the planet’s, from hard rock to gas giants, hot to cold and then earth, so perfect for life and so different from the others.
This is so exciting! Thank you for the opportunity! My kids, ages 11 and 6, are budding scientists. We have done a lot of biology/chemistry experiments, and I was trying to expand their horizons (no pun intended!). This kit would be perfect and a welcome addition to what they are learning at school at the moment!! Thanks again!
My daughter has taken a fascination with the night skies. We could really use a kit like this to foster the curiosities within her regarding astronomy. Thank you SO much for this opportunity.
I can’t find a place to register for the astronomy kit Giveaway. Would you please register me for the raffle.
We love the moon & stars!
Oh my son LOVES astronomy and is researching Galileo for a writing project. His interest was first peaked when learning about black holes. Our co-op does not plan to cover this book, so we will be doing it over the summer on our own! Would LOVE this kit for him!
My boys love space and want to spend every night looking through the telescope! This looks fun! We love Apologia science!
My daughter loves to think how God created it all! Indescribable! We grow closer to God as we study His creation!
The planets and facts about them! The constellations are something that fascinates me also and I never know too much about!