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Earth Day’s 2025 theme is OUR POWER, OUR PLANET, calling for everyone to unite around renewable energy so we can triple clean electricity by 2030. How can you help? Join us for Earth Action Day by educating, advocating, and mobilizing your communities.
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New Shows Now Available
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Find out more below!
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Class Starters (5 - 10 Minutes)
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NASA Probes and Rovers

NASA Mission to Mars
Driving Perserverance​
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Site Map (Picture)
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Where is the JWST?
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Use this virtual lab to observe its motion and find out where the James Webb Space Telescope is in our solar system.
Far From Home...
​A Journey to Mars
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Insight

Control your own version of the Insight rover and see how scientists learn about and listen for Marsquakes.
Up, Up and Away...
​Take Flight on Mars
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Perseverance

Using Scratch code, create a video game where players can explore Mars with a helicopter similar to the actual model going to Mars with the Perseverance Rover.
Galaxy of Horrors
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Take a tour of some of the most terrifying and mind-blowing destinations in our galaxy … and beyond. After a visit to these nightmare worlds, you may never want to leave Earth again! You can also download our free posters — based on real NASA science — if you dare.
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Learn more about Hurricanes
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Shows and Tickets
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The Hoffman Planetarium is designed to be an engaging, interactive fulldome classroom for students. We will bring real-time space and earth science into the dome’s unique teaching environment while immersing students in the Planetarium’s interactive visual universe, and explore Earth’s 3D topography and layers in spectacular detail.
We have planetarium shows for Elementary, Middle and High School students. Teachers and Parents have professional learning and parent meetings as well!
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Several Public and Private shows are available for scheduling at the Hoffman Planetarium all year long! We have individual and group rates.
For information regarding
​showtimes, please contact  

[email protected]

or at the Hoffman Planetarium 
(248) 336-7740 x2839
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We have hands-on activities for all ages!

It's Electric! with Oak Park 5th Graders
Sensational Seashells! and
Michigan Rocks! with
Oak Park and Detroit Public Schools
Mouse-rific Coding with the GSRP Rebels
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DoD STEM K-12
Saturday and Summer Camp Registration
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DoD K-12 STEM Camp Virtual Activities

Majestic Michigan 
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Soo Locks - Sault Ste. Marie
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Tahquamenon Falls

Planetarium Programs
Starry Night
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The Starry Night software allows us to display a realistic night sky from any location on Earth or any position in the solar system. We have the ability to display any date and time for thousands of years in the past or future. Starry Night provides an almost unequaled window to the observable universe.
The Layer Earth (TLE)
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The Layered Earth is a detailed, comprehensive full dome visualization suite for earth science simulation. The Layered Earth’s three-dimensional world envisions our Earth as a whole system. Explore tectonic plate boundaries, mountain ranges, volcanoes, earthquakes, mineral resources, biomes and much, much more.
Zygote Body
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Zygote Body is a powerful and intuitive 3D interactive simulation of the human body. The body is treated as an inter-related system of systems, each part of which can be individually selected, highlighted, hidden, made transparent, or annotated. Zygote Body includes high resolution tissue textures and 100s of individually identified body parts for precise, realistic visualization.

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  • HOME
    • Exoplanets
    • Insects
    • Plants
    • Zoo Time
  • Lesson Resources
    • K - 5 Physical Science (Unit 1) >
      • Kindergarten - Unit 1
      • 1st Grade - Unit 1
      • 2nd Grade - Unit 1
      • 3rd Grade - Unit 1
      • 4th Grade - Unit 1
      • 5th Grade - Unit 1
    • K - 5 Earth Science (Unit 2) >
      • Kindergarten - Unit 2
      • 1st Grade - Unit 2
      • 2nd Grade - Unit 2
      • 3rd Grade - Unit 2
      • 4th Grade - Unit 2
      • 5th Grade - Unit 2
    • K - 5 Life Science (Unit 3) >
      • 3rd Grade - Unit 3
      • 4th Grade - Unit 3
      • 5th Grade - Unit 3
    • Middle School Science Lessons >
      • Middle School Resources
    • High School Lessons >
      • Physics and Space Science
      • Earth Science
      • Ecology and Biology
  • Shows/Tickets
    • Girl Scout and Boy Scout Programs