Birthday Moons

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Birthday Moons

• By Lynnette Doty
• Jodi Hoke
• Janine Walker
• Tiffany Woosley

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Introduction

• Birthday Moons is a Science Inquiry lesson using
  the Internet which deals with the Phases of Moon
• http//drmts.tripod.com/courses/edu355/schedule/mo
  ons/plan.htm

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Objectives

• Students will recognize and describe the patterns
  of the moons phases
• Students will generate a birthday moon from their
  own birth date using given websites
• Students will predict the moon phase for their
  next birthday

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Procedures

• Students will write about feelings and
  experiences they have had regarding the moon and
  recall any stories they have read/heard about the
  moon
• Read aloud one of the following
• Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• Many Moons by James Thurber

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Procedures (Contd)

• Discuss the meaning of the word Phases
• Show a diagram of the moon phases to explain that
  the moon doesnt always look the same

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Phases of the Moon
First Quarter
Waxing Crescent
Waxing Gibbous
New Moon
Full Moon
Earth
Waning Crescent
Waning Gibbous
Last (Third) Quarter
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Internet Travel to the Moon

• Have students go to the following website
• Moon Phases
• Find out which moon phase appeared on their
  birthday for the current and previous years
• Draw what moon looked like on their birthday for
  the current year
• Place drawing on class moon graph

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The Four Cs

• Students will
• Calculate (total pictures in each Phase)
• Categorize (could you divide into different
  categories)
• Compare (which has the most and which has the
  least)
• Conclude (interpret data)

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Assessment

• Using the Phases of the Earths Moon worksheet
  the students will correctly place pictures of
  moon phases by titles

http//drmts.tripod.com/courses/edu355/schedule/mo
ons/cutpaste.htm
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