Orion Lesson

The Orion Constellation

Constellations are groups of stars.

When people on earth first noticed that stars appear in groups, they named the groups after people or creatures from their religions and myths.

In Greek Mythology, Orion is a hunter.

When ancient astronomers saw the constellation, they imagined the lines between stars formed the outline of Orion, the hunter.

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What are constellations?

• groups of planets

• groups of stars

• like a supernova

Multiple Choice

Where does the name of the Orion constellation come from?

• Ancient Chinese astronomers thought the stars sort of looked like the Coronovirus.

• The astronomer who discovered it had a son named Orion

• Ancient Greek astronomers thought the stars sort of looked like a mythological hunter named Orion.

In Chapter 5, the group tessers to visit the Happy Medium somewhere in Orion’s belt.

The three stars that form Orion’s belt are named Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka.

You can’t live on a star, only a planet.

Astronomers think there are planets orbiting most stars in the sky just like there are planets orbiting our home star, the sun.

Scientists aren’t sure if there are planets orbiting any of the stars in Orion’s belt.

But in A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle imagines there’s at least one, the planet the Happy Medium lives on.

Multiple Choice

What's Orion's belt made of?

• three stars

• dark matter

• leather

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Where does the group tesser to in Chapter 5?

• Orion's belt

• Orion's sword

• Uriel

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Where, in Orion's belt, did the group end up?

• on one of the stars

• a fictional planet orbiting one of the stars

• Uriel

Nebulae are giant clouds of dust, stars and planets. The Orion Nebula is one of the closest nebulae to earth.

Orion's sword is where the nebula is.

Astronomers have found planets orbiting stars in the Orion Nebula.

Here's a picture of the Orion Nebula taken from space.

Multiple Choice

Why does Orion's sword glow?

• He uses glow-in-the-dark paint

• That's where the Orion Nebula is

• Everything on Uriel glows

Multiple Choice

If you rewrote Chapter 5 of A Wrinkle in Time so that it's science is accurate, where would the group tesser to?

• I wouldn't change anything. The science is already accurate.

• I would have them tesser to a planet that orbits one of the stars in the Orion nebula.

• I would have them go back to Uriel because that's a real planet.

Open Ended

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