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Lunar Eclipse Teacher Resources
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Students examine eclipses. In this eclipse activity, students investigate solar and lunar eclipses. Students complete a WebQuest and write a descriptive summary of eclipses. Lesson references a WebQuest, but does not include a link.
Students explore the attributes of Earth's moon. For this moon lesson, students examine the phases of the moon and what causes them. Students also research the causes of solar and lunar eclipses.
Students research shadows and how they relate to a lunar eclipse. In this shadows lesson, students discuss shadows using an overhead projector. Students work in groups to make shadows on objects and learn vocabulary about vocabulary words. Students research the lunar eclipse and simulate it with a flashlight and two graduated spheres. Students write in their journals about the activity.
Middle schoolers discover the moon's phases and the rarity of eclipses. In this lunar lesson, students view a video titled Spin Around the Solar System: A Moon Dance, which demonstrates the key differences between a lunar and solar eclipse. Middle schoolers utilize the Internet to complete an activity based on the order of the moon's phases.
Students explore the Earth's only natural sattelite, the moon. They view a demonstration using tennis balls of the waxing crescent moon, waxing gibbous moon and a lunar eclipse.
Students research space science by conducting an in-class experiment. In this eclipse lesson, students identify and illustrate what happens during both a solar and lunar eclipse. Students utilize light bulbs, poster paper, styrofoam balls and coloring utensils to conduct an eclipse demonstration prior to creating a presentation poster.
In this eclipses worksheet, students will compare diagrams of a total solar eclipse with a total lunar eclipse. Students will complete 6 short answer questions based on these diagrams.
In this moon worksheet, students fill in the different phases on the moon on a diagram and label each phase. Students compare a solar and lunar eclipse. This worksheet has 2 fill in the blank and 3 short answer questions.
Students explore solar and lunar eclipses and how the sun, Earth, and moon cause them.
Students simulate location of Earth, moon, and sun, in relationship to each other, during a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse.