Moon Unit

We are going to be studying the moon and stars this month. We will start the month studying the moon. I bought a lapbook unit from Hands of a Child and will be using it along with a science activity book by Teacher Created Resources of Stars and Planets to complete the unit.

TT and Poogie will each do a lapbook. Poogies will be a more simplified version of TT's but they will both study the same aspects of the moon.

Lesson 1- Create Lapbooks.

We will create lapbooks and make a cover for front of book.

Lesson 2-Vocabulary and Moon Facts

TT- Do Vocabulary book for lapbook.
Do Moon Fact book for lap book.

Use these sites for info.

NASA Kids club: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html
Has a dictionary for terms.

Total moon info page: http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/

Poogie will draw pictures on her vocabulary book for lapbook.



Lesson 3- Moon Mass

TT and Poogie will complete moon mass activity for lapbook.

They will use this site to calculate what their weight would be on the moon.
Calculate your weight on the moon page: http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/


Lesson 4-Moon Phases

I will demonstrate the moon phases using activity in Teacher Created Resources book Stars & Planets pages 12-13

We will view moon phases online at: http://www.netaxs.com/mhmyers/moon.tn.html

Then we will use moon phase cards I made using TCR book Stars & Planets page 14.

TT and Poogie will then make their moon phase book for their lapbook.

TT will be given a sheet copied from TCR book to start a moon phase journal.


Lesson 4- Continued-Moon phases

TT and Poogie will review moon phases using moon phase cards.

They will then make a flip book to view the actual movement and changes in the moon.
The book is from the TCR book pages 16-19.


Lesson 5-Eclipses

We will discuss what eclipses are and view different kinds at

http://www.netaxs.com/mhmyers/moon.tn.html

Lesson 6-Moonlight

TT and Poogie will complete moonlight book for lapbook.

Lesson 7-Layers of the Moon

TT and Poogie will complete the lapbook activity.

Lesson 8-Surface of the Moon

We will view photos of the moon and identify various physical features, namely creators using these sites

Tons of photos of the moon and landing on the moon: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/thumbnail_pages/moon_thumbnails.html

Layers and features of the moon: Internet Encyclopedia of Science http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/M/Moon.html

They will then complete lapbook activity in which they will color and identify the four inner layers of the moon.

Book List:

Poogie-

When You Look Up at the Moon by Allan Fowler

What is the Full Moon Full Of? by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim

TT-

The Moon by Isaac Asimov

Science Adventures: The Moon by Helen H Carey and Judith E. Greenberg

Both-

The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole

Does the Moon Change Shape? by Meish Goldish

Movies and DVDs:

Apollo 13

From the Earth to the Moon Disc 3

To be continued...