Astronomy for kids

[InTheDark]

I took a group of 15 kids out last week to check out the stars. I know my way around pretty well and set it up so that Jupiter was still up and the moon was 3-4 days old. I have a 10" Dobsonian and between these two objects and the associated chaos of the kids that was a solid start. I also brought 3 pair of binoculars and a guide to the Cassiopia area but that required too much of my time to oversee and degenerated quickly to idle binocular use. My last telescope object was Alberio in Cygnus, a striking double, but not too impressive to a nine YO.

I'll likely try this again in March and the list of objects gets a lot better. Saturn, M42, maybe Mars. In binocs M36, 37 & 38, M45, Hyades.

What do you know? Where would you point your scope to grab a 10 YO's imagination?