Moon Phases

Introduction

Please follow ALL directions. Read each task, go to the website or resource to find your answers. Use your interactive notebook :)

Happy Science :) 

Task

Task 1: https://stardate.org/nightsky/moon

Check out the Title: "Why does the Moon have Phases" 

- Get your interactive notebook and give me a summary of why the moon has phases" 

-Look on the calendar and draw a picture of the moon that in on today's date. 

- Find the date you were born and draw the moon on the day you were born. 

Task 2: 

http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/solar-system/moon.htm

Check out the power point over moons: then do the quiz at the end. 

Task 3: 

Place in your science interactive notebook: 

Science has special terms. You need to know what these terms mean. For Task Two, define the following terms: gibbous, waning, and waxing. You will identify which phases are waxing and waning.

Use this website to help: http://www.moonconnection.com/moon-glossary.phtml

Task 4: 

Answer the question: Why does the moon change phases everyday? 

 Use this website to help: https://www.space.com/18880-moon-phases.html

Conclusion

Congratulations!  You are now a phases of the Moon monster! Repeat after me, "I am so good, I can hardly stand myself!"

 

 

Process

Please follow all the directions for web quest. GO to each website to find your answers. 

Credits

Teacher Page

Easy web quest to introduce moon phases.