Sesame Street® “One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure”
One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure is a cross-cultural planetarium show geared toward children ages 4 to 6. Through the lens of astronomy, children join Elmo, Big Bird and Hu Hu Zhu - a Muppet from the Chinese co-production of Sesame Street® - to explore the night sky. The planetarium experience aims to provide young children in the U.S. and China with an age-appropriate introduction to astronomy, to promote positive attitudes toward science, and to foster cross-cultural appreciation. The show was created by Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street®, and its partners, with major funding from the PNC Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Additional support for One World, One Sky comes from the W.L.S. Spencer Foundation, China Association for Science and Technology and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Sesame Street® “Growing Up Great Together Under One Big Sky”
The Growing Up Great Together Under One Big Sky mobile planetarium tour features an inflatable dome where children ages 4-6 view the One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure planetarium show. The portable dome travels throughout markets served by PNC to early childhood education centers and other organizations where children would not otherwise have the opportunity to visit a planetarium.
At the Growing Up Great Together Under One Big Sky mobile planetarium, children learn the basic principles of math, geometry and physics, and also about others’ culture. At the close of the show, each child receives a daytime/nighttime activity poster, which is trilingual (English, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish) and has reusable, glow-in-the-dark stars to display at home. Prior to the event, teachers at the schools and centers receive astronomy-based curriculum to share with students before the dome arrives, as well as follow-up activities and ideas for after it departs.
