Moon Lesson Plans

Students identify the moon's phases. In this space science lesson, students visit suggested websites to find and record the moon's phase on various dates.

Fourth graders research moon facts. In this moon lesson, 4th graders complete a worksheet of moon facts using the assigned images and links. They look at moon landforms, its effect on gravity, and participate in lunar Olympics.

Students research behaviors connected to the full moon and plot their findings on a graph. For this full moon lesson plan, students discuss superstitions related to the full moon, research human behaviors, and plot them on a graph for the different phases.

Learners become familiar with characteristics of folktales by reading or listening to African folktale that explains why sun and moon live in the sky. Students then create their own folktales about the sun and moon or another aspect of solar system.

Students study fact and fiction about the Earth's moon. In this moon lesson, students use an assigned web site to complete an activity sheet with information about the moon. They demonstrate the ability to cut and paste information to complete the activity sheet. They download pictures of the moon from a NASA web site.

Students participate in guided reading lessons as they read the Magic Tree House Blizzard of the Blue Moon by Mary Pope Osborne. In this guided reading activity set, the students read and discuss the book by chapters. They write predictions, build vocabulary, and use a variety of reading strategies.

Students discover patterns within a hundreds chart.  In this pattern identification lesson, students read Kitten's First Full Moon and create a moon themed hundreds chart based on the book.  Students discuss their hundreds charts and the patterns they have found.

Third graders construct a model of how the moon revolves around the Earth using a ball, flashlight, and themselves, and complete a chart sequencing the phases of the moon in the correct order.

Students design the phases of the moon using Nilla Wafer cookies. Each student will keep a record of the phases of the moon by tacing the cookie pattern. The moon phases they are demonstrating are gibbous, waxing, waning and crescent.

Young scholars evaluate what life would be like living on the moon or another planet in our solar system.  In this science lesson, students create a colony that they would use to live in on the moon using Legos.