Portable Planetarium

Bring the Stars to Your Students!

Portable, immersive, TEKS-aligned planetarium experiences for elementary, middle, and high school.

Bring the universe to your campus with the Region 7 inflatable planetarium experience, designed to make space science engaging, hands-on, and accessible for students of all ages. Whether you're working with curious elementary learners or diving deeper into complex astronomy concepts with middle and high school students, this immersive tool supports learning across every grade level. After attending a required half-day training, teams of two educators can reserve the planetarium for classroom use. The Region 7 Science Team will show you how to align it with TEKS and provide everything you need to set up and share the experience across your campus.

How It Works:

Step 1: Register for the Portable Planetarium training (teams of two)
Step 2: Become eligible to check out the planetarium
Step 3: Reserve your dates (see our calendar below)
Step 4: Educators will pick up the planetarium from the previous school district and set it up on their campus; Region 7 will support alignment with TEKS

The planetarium is 18 feet in diameter and 12 feet in height.
Make sure your setup location has plenty of room!

Stellarium download is available here.

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COMING SOON!Please complete our reservation form for the 2025-2026 School Year.

Only one campus contact should complete this form.
(The campus contact must be someone who completed the Region 7 Portable Planetarium training this year.)

Use the form below to rank your top 5 preferred weeks for reserving the planetarium.

We’ll host a Zoom meeting on July 17 at 1:00 PM to randomly determine the order in which districts will be assigned their week.

The first district drawn will receive their first-choice week.
If that week is already taken, we’ll move to the next available choice on their list.
Each district will be assigned one week based on availability and preference.

You do not need to be present at the Zoom meeting. Just be sure to submit your rankings before July 17. A finalized calendar and updated website will be shared with all participants by the end of July.

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Below are the current pre-warped videos that are available on the planetarium laptop. This is for preview only, please do not download nor share. The actual videos are played from the mediashow app on the laptop. The Fishtank folder houses the fisheye videos that must be played through the Fishtank software.