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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students model the motions of the Earth-Moon-Sun system to explain moon phases; examine the relationship between the movement of the Earth and the illumination of the Moon; and explore selected Web sites to research the Moon phases and the Moon. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students describe how sea levels are constantly changing with daily and monthly cycles. They list some causes and effects of tidal changes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students are introduced to the phases of the moon. They use moon phase vocabulary correctly, view and discuss videos, conduct research using the Internet and use construction paper and chalk to diagram and label a complete lunar cycle. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students identify the factors that cause and affect tides. They analyze different tide patterns and discuss what can affect the variations of these patterns. Thye describe how tides affect our lives. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the forces that cause and affect tides. They discuss the effect of lunar cycles on living organisms. They analyze different investigations to determine if lunar cycles affect specific phenomena in living organisms. Full Review »
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- 8th - 9th
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Students observe the questions, "Why do we say there is a man on the moon?, What do you think of when you hear "the moon is made of cheese"?, What is meant, to you, by the expression "Once in a blue moon"? and a comic of Snoopy typing, "It was a dark and moonless night" and in small groups discuss what these phrases have in common and formulate answers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 4th
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Students discover scientific facts about the Moon and how some American Indian Tribes used the moon to measure time. They accomplish this by listening to stories and poetry, writing stories, communicating with an astronaut, performing experiments and utilizing the Internet. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students explore the phases of the moon. Using a calendar grid, they make nightly observations of the moon and record their findings. At the end of the month, students discuss the changes and shapes of the moon. In groups, they perform activities to simulate the phases of the moon, and create models to indicate the locations of the sun, moon and Earth during each phase. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students research measurements of the moon and Earth as well as the distance between the two in order to create scale models of the Earth-moon system. With a marble to be used as the moon, they must determine how large to make Earth out of modeling clay. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students explore the cause of tides and their monthly cycles. Using hands-on activities, students simulate the pull of the moon's gravity on the Earth's oceans, model lunar cycles, and model positions of the sun, moon, and Earth during spring and neap tides. Students also compare photographs of low and high tides, noting the differences in each. Full Review »
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