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- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students explore why when you examine the moon depends on its location in relationship to the sun and Earth. The moon never goes away or changes shape-we just see a different fraction of sunlight being reflected from the moon to Earth. Full Review »
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- 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 - 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 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 »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 6th
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Students discover, through teacher demonstraton and guided practice, the phases of the moon. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students discover what the sun and planets are like and their positions in the Solar System. They explore how the sun affects Earth and what the moon looks like and how it moves. They study how scientists view space from Earth by using telescopes, satellites, and astronauts. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 6th
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Students investigate the cyclic phases of the Moon and the positioning of the Earth, Moon, and Sun at each phase. They locate and cut out magazine pictures of the moon, define key vocabulary terms, and act out the phases of the Moon using a golf ball, softball, basketball and a flashlight. 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 »
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