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Moon Flip Book PrintablesMoon Flip Book Printables
Publisher
Lunar and Planetary Institute
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Grade
3rd - 7th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Printables & Templates
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
30 mins
Instructional Strategies
Direct Instruction
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Year
2008
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Moon Flip Book

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Watch an entire month flash before your eyes with this fun phases-of-the-moon flip book activity.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

the moon, the full moon, the new moon, moon exploration, the lunar cycle, outer space, the solar system

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Include this activity in an elementary or middle school science unit on the solar system
  • Have students take the flip books home, using them with their families to make observations about the moon
  • Before creating the flip books, pass out one of the lunar images to each student and have them work collaboratively to arrange themselves in the correct order

Classroom Considerations

  • Add numbers to the pages to support children with correctly assembling the flip book

Pros

  • Flip books includes 23 images that clearly depict all of the phases of the moon
  • Provides step-by-step instructions for assembling the flip books

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.1.3 RI.1.4 RI.2.3 RI.2.4 RI.3.3 RI.3.4 RI.4.3 RI.4.4 RI.5.3 RI.5.4 L.3.6 L.4.6 L.5.6 RI.6.3 RI.6.4 RI.7.3 RI.7.4 L.6.6 L.7.6

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