A big space journey for young Penza residents

Representatives of the Penza Regional Centre of Access to the Presidential Library's Resources prepared a "big space journey" for the fifth-graders from School No 76.

They told children about the evolution of the human vision of the Earth and space, legends associated with constellations, the invention of the telescope and the discoveries of the planets. Using a globe and an ordinary table lamp, they showed how the day and night change and also the change of seasons.

The school students learned about the order of the planets with the help of a mnemonic poem, collected space puzzles, and filled out the "logbook" in conditions of "zero gravity". Moreover, the "weightlessness of space" was created by the participants of the "light": the tablet literally "floated away" from the hands of the spaceship commander: he had to write standing on one leg while the other crew were swinging him.

Specialists of the electronic reading room also introduced the fifth-graders to the Presidential Library's collection Outer Space. It features fragments of newsreels, books, postcards spotlighting various milestones in the development of cosmonautics.

Young readers could "look through" the book by Nikolai Rynin Interplanetary Communications, available on the Presidential Library's portal. The publication describes projects of space flights using a magnet, a flying chariot and even an "iron fly".

The Presidential Library's portal provides the collection Penza Region: Pages of History. It includes archival files, essays, studies and statistical materials covering various aspects of the regional history at the end of the XVIII - first third of the XX centuries, including demographic, geographical, socio-economic, socio-political and other information.

Based on materials of the http://liblermont.ru/ portal