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Moon Phases - Finally Making Sense of Them
Students investigate the different phases of the moon. In this lunar cycle instructional activity, students create models of the sun, earth and moon and investigate why we observe the moon the way we do. Students observe a...
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Clip the Face
Learners discover the moon's phases and the rarity of eclipses. In this lunar lesson, students view a video titled Spin Around the Solar System: A Moon Dance, which demonstrates the key differences between a lunar and solar eclipse....
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When Do Lunar Eclipses Happen?
Who needs the daylight to simulate a lunar eclipse? Astronomers model the positions of the Sun, Earth, and Moon to explain the necessary conditions for a lunar eclipse. Investigators cut and label a paper plate to represent the Earth and...
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Modelling Periodic Phenomena
In this Pre-calculus/Trigonometry instructional activity, students determine the trigonometric function that best models the given data. The eight page instructional activity contains explanation, examples, and twenty-one problems....
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Earth is Round?
Third graders discuss how Aristotle concluded that the Earth was round. As a class, they review theories about the Earth's shape and describe how life on Earth would be different if it were flat. Individually, they make a moon book in...