Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Moon Phases: Making a Lunar Flipbook
After investigating the lunar phases as part of the Foss Kit on the Sun and the Moon, an additional activity would be to make a moon flip book to illustrate the different phases. Students will cut out pre-printed pictures of the...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Moon in Motion: Monitoring the Moon's Phases
Using a moon calendar data-gathering tool, middle schoolers discover the patterns of the lunar phases through observations and other exploration activities.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Lunar Phases
In this astronomy classroom activity, students will investigate how shadows create the phases of the moon. Students will record the phases of the moon.
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TOPS Learning Systems
Tops Learning Systems: Top Science: Moon on a Stick [Pdf]
Investigate why the moon does not always appear to be round.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Using Oreo Cookies to Discover the Moon Phases
Students will understand the phases of the moon by scraping away the frosting from the inside of Oreo cookies, and placing them in moon phase order.
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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Exploration of Shadows: Earth, Moon, Sun System: Moon Phases Eclipses
A guided inquiry where students participate in the simulation of moon phases and eclipses.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Moon Phaser [Pdf]
In this activity, 4th graders will study the moon for a period of one month and learn to identify each major moon phase. They will then describe the moon through poems, haikus, and similes.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Moon Phases
This lesson will familiarize students with the phases of the moon. It can be taught in a unit dealing with the solar system. It involves all learning types-kinesthetic, auditory, tactile, and visual.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Phases of the Moon
This lesson will familiarize students with the phases of the moon. It can be taught in a unit dealing with the solar system. It involves all learning types-kinesthetic, auditory, tactile, and visual.
University of Utah
University of Utah: Aspire: Lunar Phases
Two-part activity teaches about the phases of the moon.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Phases of the Moon
In this TI InterActive! activity, students study the phases of the moon, plot the fraction of the moon showing each day in a month, and fit the data with an appropriate trigonometric function.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Cycles of the Sun and Moon
Students download sunrise and sunset data along with moon phase data, and graph these data sets together in a spreadsheet in order to visualize the cycles of the seasons and the moon.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Phases of the Moon Model
Examine the changes that occur with the moon's movement in relationship to the Earth and Sun with this astronomy simulation.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Moon Light Through the Month
In this lesson, students are asked to order cards showing different phases of the moon. Includes student handouts.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Sun, Earth, and Moon: Calendar of Events
During this lesson students are going to take a look at moon phases and sunrise-sunset times in order to learn about daylight hours. Students discover that we do not always have the same amount of daylight each day. This lesson is best...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Moon Phases (Smart Created)
Learn the names of the phases of the moon including the terms waxing and waning.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Science: Phases of the Moon
Kids learn about the science of the phases of the moon. Full, Gibbous, Quarter, and Crescent.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Moon and Sun
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart could be a unit plan. It is broken down to observing and comparing the day and night sky, comparing the properties of the moon and the sun, and observing the pattern of the moon phases.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Models of the Earth and Moon
This lesson plan from the Illinois Institute of Technology demonstrates the causes of; day and night, seasons, and phases of the moon.With a few items, you help the elementary student discover why these phenomena occur.
Bill Nye
Bill Nye: Baseball Moon
Try this at-home science experiment to make your own Moon model and see how the Moon's phases change.
Utah Education Network
Uen: A Moon With a View
Understand the rotation of the earth and the appearance of movement of other bodies in the sky.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Earth and Moon Observations
Earth's revolution, rotation, tilt, day and night cycle, and the sun's apparent movement across the earth are explored.
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...
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