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Lunar and Planetary Institute: Explore! Mars Inside and Out
Four hands-on activities and explorations designed to engage children in learning about Mars.
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Lunar and Planetary Institute: Make a Comet
Hands-on activity allows children to learn about comets by creating their own models using art supplies.
Other
Lunar and Planetary Institute: Wham! Moon!
In this hour long activity, "children color images of the latest scientific data depicting the Moon's formation to create their own comic strips of our Moon's birth" using a variety of art supplies and books as resources.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Lunar Lollipops
The students work in teams of two to discover the relative positions of the Earth, Sun and Moon that produce the different phases of the Moon. The students will be given a Styrofoam ball that they will attach to a pencil so that it looks...
NASA
Nasa, Human Space Flight: Apollo 11 Mission
The story of the Apollo 11 lunar landing is told with dramatic details, pictures, and mission highlights.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Introduction to Rocket Propulsion
From a chapter on Linear Momentum and Collisions in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter discusses Newton's third law of motion in the context of rocket and jet engine propulsion. Students learn how to calculate a rocket's...
BBC
Bbc Science and Nature: The Moon
The BBC brings together a lot of useful information about the moon and related topics, such as the lunar landings, and publishes it in the form of a traveler's guide.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: The Moon
In this interactive tutorial students will explore what it is like on the Moon. Learn why the shape of the Moon seem to change and also about lunar eclipses. Discover why the tide changes twice a day and explore how the cycle of the Moon...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "What Is an Eclipse?" by Nasa
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Cornell University
Cornell University: Astronomy: Eclipses
This site from the Astronomy Department of Cornell University provides brief introduction to both solar and lunar eclipses. Links are provided for pictures and charts of the eclipses, and this is a good site to check out on the subject.
Other
Introduction to Astronomy: The Motion of the Moon
This site provides a moving diagram of a Lunar eclipse, showing Earth's umbra and penumbra and the appearance of the Moon as it passes through these shadow regions.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Lunar Rover
A photo of an astronaut as he interacts with a lunar rover while on the moon.
A&E Television
History.com: When Apollo 10 Nearly Crashed Into the Moon
The mission that paved the way for the Apollo 11 moon landing came close to ending in disaster. Commander Tom Stafford and Lunar Module Pilot Gene Cernan had just returned from their close pass by the lunar surface and were readying to...
Woodlands Junior School
Woodlands Junior School: The Phases of the Moon
This resource provides information about the lunar phases.
NASA
Nasa: Astronomy Picture of the Day: Apollo 16: Exploring Plum Crater
This is a photograph of Charles M. Duke, Jr. collecting rock samples at the Descartes landing site. Duke stands by Plum Crater while the Lunar Roving Vehicle waits parked in the background. The Lunar Roving Vehicle allowed the astronauts...
Extreme Science
Extreme Science: The Moon
Read about the birth of Earth's moon, its composition, orbit, visible phases, and other interesting facts. Link to a virtual moon phase interactive which shows the current lunar phase and the phase on any date in the past or future.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Moon in Motion: Monitoring the Moon's Phases
Using a moon calendar data-gathering tool, students discover the patterns of the lunar phases through observations and other exploration activities.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Going Through a Phase: The Changing Patterns of Our Moons Appearance
Students learn about lunar phases by investigating and observing the changing shapes of the moon as sunlight is reflected away from the moon.
NASA
Nasa Star Child: What Are the Phases of the Moon?
This page provides basic information about the causes of the phases of the Moon. A good diagram shows the lit portion of the Moon as seen from Earth through one complete Lunar cycle.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Patterned Paragraphs
Students will learn about the importance of including specific details when writing. Students will watch the teacher model "How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich." Then student will replicate the process for writing with specificity as...
NASA
Nasa: From Stargazers to Starships: The Calendar
A lesson plan that gives an overview of solar and lunar calendars, their history and lore. Also, of the day and the month, and their relations to the rotational period of the Earth and the orbital period of the Moon.For versions in...
Harvard University
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Time and the Calendar
This lesson helps students discover the importance of time and the calendar, and how they each bring order to life. Each activity is designed for students understand the passage of time, how to keep time, international time zones,...
Youngzine
Youngzine: Asia to Welcome Year of the Rooster
Find out about the Chinese calendar, or the Lunar Calendar, and the celebrations that accompany this tradition.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Types of Rainbows
There are many types of rainbows, which may not be common knowledge. Learn about the fogbow, the lunar rainbow, and other interesting types, and how they each form.
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