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Teach Engineering: Lunar Lollipops ActivityTeach Engineering: Lunar Lollipops Activity
Publisher
TeachEngineering
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Grade
3rd - 5th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Activities & Projects
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For Administrator Use
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Lexile Measures
1180L
Activity

Teach Engineering: Lunar Lollipops

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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 like a lollipop. This ball will be the Moon, the students will be the Earth and a hanging light bulb will be the Sun. The students will move the "Moon" around them to discover the different phases. They will fill in the position of the Moon and its corresponding phase on the attached worksheet.

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Concepts

engineering, stem

Additional Tags

axis, crescent moon, full moon, new moon, phases of the moon, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, revolution, rotation, lunar phases

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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