Lunar Phases and Eclipse websites

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Inquiry4.2 Reflection Questions homework help  -- see page 68 in text or  http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_phases.phtml or 

http://stardate.org/nightsky/moon

http://jupiter.plymouth.edu/~sci_ed/Turski/Courses/Astronomy/1.Videos/MOONSYNC.MOV

http://www.moonconnection.com/moon-same-side.phtml

 

Teacher and the Rockbots Things in Space Song
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=C4B04734-3F85-4B6E-A3B8-CACF308473CD&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

Moon Calendar website

http://www.stardate.org/nightsky/moon/

http://www.almanac.com/moon/calendar/zipcode/07059/2009-10

 

Here are three interactive moon phase websites.  Try any one that works for you.

 

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/moon_phases/

http://astro.unl.edu/naap/lps/animations/lps.swf

 

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007299181x/student_view0/chapter2/lunar_phases_interactive.html#

Try this interactive challenge of putting the moon phases in order:

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/moon/moon_challenge/moon_challenge.html

From 3rd grade http://www.quia.com/rd/11412.html?AP_rand=163003325

How the Moon rotates on its axis (27.3 days) and revolves around Earth (27.3 days)  --  

http://oz.plymouth.edu/~sci_ed/Turski/Courses/Astronomy/1.Videos/MOONSYNC.MOV


Quizzes about the moon and its phases

http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/labs/moon/lunar_phases_main.html

http://hs-staffserver.stjames.k12.mn.us/~fraken/Earth%20Science%20Files/Grade%208%20Practice%20Quizzes/earth,sun,moonqu.html

Creating a lunar cycle in four easy steps:

  • 1.        Draw and label the new moon
    •  When the moon is in this position, the lighted half is facing the Sun and the half that’s facing the Earth is totally dark.  Put the full moon opposite the new moon.
  • 2.       Decide which way the moon orbits Earth
    • Think about which way we run the bases of a baseball field.
  • 3.       Draw and label first quarter moon
    • Remember our poem:  If it’s light on the right we are waxing tonight.  If it’s light on the left we are waning at last.  Put the 3rd quarter moon opposite.
  • 4.       Now you can fill in the waxing crescent and gibbous and waning crescent and gibbous.

NASA's Eclipse website

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html

 http://www.hermit.org/Eclipse/why_cycles.html