In this activity students record data about moon phases over the course of one complete moon cycle. The data will be used later in the course when students are building a model to account for the phenomenon of moon phases. Each student will gather data for the date and time, the color of the moon, the weather, the location in the sky and the shape and features of the moon from each day of an entire cycle of moon phases, and record it on a worksheet. This worksheet is available at the link called student activities and can be modified to also include moonrise and moonset data if desired. Links also lead to detailed instructional notes for the teacher and to further information about the moon.
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Copyright 2002 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.
DLESE Catalog ID: DLESE-000-000-005-670
This resource is part of 'Earth-Moon-Sun Dynamics'
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Publisher: Wisconsin Center for Education Research, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison