Pinwheel Galaxy

For Students in First through Fifth Grade

You are in a state, which is in a country, which is on a planet, Earth. Earth is in a solar system, which is inside a galaxy called the Milky Way — just one of the trillions of galaxies in the universe. Another galaxy called the Pinwheel Galaxy is spiral shaped and is located twenty-one million light years away from earth. Hold a little part of our big universe in your hands by making your own paper pinwhell version of this galaxy.