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What kind of activites can I do with my students to ge them excited about the phases of the moon?
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There are many different activites you can do with moon phases they differ depending on the age of the audience. For example for a second grade level you can promote hands-on-activites such as making a model of the different phases of the moon with materials such as styrofoamballs, skewers and paint to show the students a visual of what each moon phase will look like and in what positions they are made.
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How would you as a student feel about hands-on-activites rather than worksheets? What would you prefer as a student? Would the delivery of the content be the same as recieving from a textbook?
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Hi Tania, Just wanted to thank you for sharing this resource it looks very promising. I plan on utilizing it for a review/intro into the solar system for my freshmen earth science class. I love how the simulator allows for interaction for all students and gives them a great visual of the moon cycles. I might pair the simulator with either the oreo or softball ideas below just to add a hands on component to the lesson.
Thanks again!
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Depending on the age of the students, a video to introduce the topic would be great. An activity my 5th grade teacher did with my class was to position a lamp in the middle of the room to represent the sun and gave us wooden spheres on a stick/ dowel to represent the moon, and we, the students would represent the Earth. With this, he had us rotate to visually see the shadow on the sphere and we were able to recognize the phase.
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Hi!
An Activity that I used one time in one of my classes to teach thte phases of the moon was the Oreo activity. You provide each student with 8 oreos (you can pair them up or put them into groups to use up less cookies), and after you have taught the lesson, have the students open up the oreos to when the white cream is on one cookie. They then can shape the cream to look like the phase of the moon. After the activitiy is done, they can eat the cookies if they want. :)
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Hello, I wanted to teach students about how the shadows of the moon work. I do not completely understand how the phases work, but I do know that because of how the moon orbits one side is always facing us. What kind of a lesson could I create to help clear any misconceptions from myself and of students?
This is my first time on the forum.
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I have had the greatest success with this concept by allowing students to physically move objects such as a ping pong ball and a softball around a light source. Students simulate the revolution of the moon around the earth as the earth revolves around the sun. As the moon (ping pong ball) is illuminated by the lamp (sun), have students view the amount of the illuminated surface seen from the perspective of someone standing on the earth (soft ball) in each position. There are also lots of digital simulations of these motions but I have observed the most “aha” moments and students really “getting it” when they work it out themselves using models.
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With the switch to remote learning for many schools. You can check Infiniscope out. There is a lesson on Phases of the Moon. To access the analytics and authoring platform you can join the community. If you are interested in finding out more see below:
Greetings Science Educators,
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Diane
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Hey Diane,
Unfortunately, I have not been able to teach the phases of the moon to my students yet due to digital learning and this being my first year but I have several ideas I have been waiting all year to try! This first one was for students to keep a log of what the moon looks like each night for a couple weeks leading up to this lesson. That way when you begin to teach the phases of the moon, you have some data and prior knowledge to work with. I also wanted to complete the phases of the moon flipbook with my students complete with labels, facts, and pictures.
Hope this provides some inspiration
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I think the Oreo activity that was mentioned above will be a fun activity for students to learn about the phases of the moon. I remember doing that one in elementary school and everyone loved it.
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The phases of the moon are very interesting and very informative for students. Theres lots of activties that the children might fine extremly interesting. For starters you can do the phases of the moon project. Make them cut circles, and shade in the different phases. Put it in a circle on a board and label each phase. Something really engaging a relatable in the oreo activtiy. This is very fun and its sympol the orea comes black with white inside. Open the oreo and take off some to make the different phases as well. Hope any of these work out goodluck.
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