{"id":5107,"date":"2020-04-13T14:09:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/?p=5107"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:35:09","slug":"the-phases-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/2020\/04\/13\/the-phases-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Phases of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although this year\u2019s ever-popular Astronomy Extravaganza has been cancelled, we thought you might be interested in a video created for the event in 2018 by four students in professor Aleks Diamond-Stanic\u2019s\u00a0\u201cIntroduction to Astronomy\u201d course. It\u2019s entitled\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Phases of Life (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6h6ymdDMHMY\" target=\"_blank\">Phases of Life <\/a><\/em>and features original music by student Alisa Amador \u201818. Like the other activities created by students for the Extravaganza, the video is designed to convey science knowledge to elementary-aged children in fun and engaging ways. We hope you enjoy it, too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual Astronomy Extravaganza&nbsp;is the brainchild of Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Physics Aleks Diamond-Stanic, who developed it while participating in the Harward Center\u2019s annual Publicly-Engaged Pedagogy faculty learning community. The Extravaganza features projects, posters, hands-on learning activities, and demonstrations designed by students in the Bates College&nbsp;course, \u201cIntroduction to Astronomy,\u201d to engage local elementary school students in science learning and exploration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more on the Astronomy Extravaganza over the years, please\nvisit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-news\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"GeGhQCNt3I\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/04\/bates-at-night-astronomy-night-extravaganza\/\">Bates at Night: Astronomy Extravaganza<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Bates at Night: Astronomy Extravaganza&#8221; &#8212; News\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/04\/bates-at-night-astronomy-night-extravaganza\/embed\/#?secret=5eu5NW3azA#?secret=GeGhQCNt3I\" data-secret=\"GeGhQCNt3I\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-news\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"QtoTXBUWFW\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2017\/04\/13\/astronomy-extravaganza-gives-lewiston-schoolchildren-the-star-treatment\/\">&#8220;Astronomy Extravaganza&#8221; gives Lewiston schoolchildren the star treatment<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;&#8220;Astronomy Extravaganza&#8221; gives Lewiston schoolchildren the star treatment&#8221; &#8212; News\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2017\/04\/13\/astronomy-extravaganza-gives-lewiston-schoolchildren-the-star-treatment\/embed\/#?secret=EG8AL26H2V#?secret=QtoTXBUWFW\" data-secret=\"QtoTXBUWFW\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although this year\u2019s ever-popular Astronomy Extravaganza has been cancelled, we thought you&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5179,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5107\/revisions\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}