Learning About the Moon

Why does the moon look different on different nights? We worked on many different activities to learn about why the moon changes in appearance.

This was one of our stations. Here, students are shining a flashlight on a basketball, and then looking at it from different angles. They observed how the light changed the basketball's appearance.

Students also used sandwich cookies to find out more about the moon. It was a delicious activity! They took apart the cookies and matched up the parts to the phases of the moon.

You can learn more about the Oreo activity at this website.

You can also find an animation of the phases of the moon.

Try looking outside over the next few nights. What do you notice? What does the moon look like? How does it change?