But before he left, he would ask the Great Spirit to bring sunrise to their hearts. Have students carefully exit the planetarium. Distribute sheets of white construction paper tell students to close their eyes and put 20 dots on their papers. Students will then connect dots to create an Indian Constellation. The students will use their Indian Constellation creations to write a myth.
Constellations are patterns of stars.
Each culture had its own set of figures that it identified in the night sky. These figures correlated to objects of importance in their culture. Myths were developed to explain these figures.