The Moon Also Rises: Investigating celestial motion models

by: Andrea M. Barton

Investigating celestial motion models is the focus of this Earth-Moon-Sun (EMS) astronomy unit. The model involves relevant motions of these objects that can be used to explain Earth-based astronomical phenomena—day and night, sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, Moon face, Moon phases, eclipses, and seasons.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 9/1/2001Stock # tst01_068_06_34Volume 068Issue 06

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Tina Harris (Fairmount, IN)
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Student models build understanding

The article is about an on-going program (even though it was written in 2001) where students are taught to develop theories and models of their own to explain Earth/Sun/Moon interactions. W... See More

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