Friday, September 12, 2014

Lunar phases

Yes it's only a paper moon......

The Moon Finder consists of two plates--a moon phases plate and a local horizon plate. First, make a plate that shows a God's-eye view of the moon in orbit around the earth, which is centered on the plate.  Place the sun on the perimeter of the plate and label the phases accordingly.  http://analyzer.depaul.edu/paperplate/activities.htm 

If possible affix images of the moon that show the moon in its respective phases.  One technique for planetarians is to cut out pictures from the lunar calendars of previous years that have been distributed courtesy of Evans and Sutherland.



This lesson is one of many grade K-12 lessons developed to bring the Voyage experience to ... Students will determine the actual distance to the Sun and the Moon ... How can we use models to measure the relative distances between the Sun ..... fly at the speed of a commercial jet plane to the Sun, it would take 17.5 years.
























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