The moon revolves around Earth, which together revolve around the sun. It takes Earth 365 days to make one revolution.

This interactive, month-long unit on the phases of the moon includes a nearpod video, chart and model/project ideas to help students develop and use a model of the Sun-Earth-Moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases.Utah 6th Grade SEEd Core 6.1.1

This is a lesson plan designed to teach the phases of the moon to sixth grade students. They will use IPADS to create a presentation to show their undestanding.  They should be able to identify all the phases of the moon and their order.   (Picture taken by my son Max)

This article from Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle provides ideas on how school librarians can work with elementary teachers to teach about the Sun's impact on weather and climate. The author introduces the Standards for the 21st Century Learner, developed by the American Association of School Librarians. The author focuses on Standard 1, which calls for students to inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge through developing and refining questions, investigating answers, seeking divergent perspectives in information, and assessing whether the information found answers the questions posed. The free, online magazine draws its themes from the Seven Essential Principles of Climate Literacy, with each issue focusing on one of the seven principles.

Students build a model of the Sun-Earth-Moon system, exploring how the Moon revolves around the Earth, and the Earth around the Sun. Students play a memory game and learn some characteristics about the three objects.

In this animated video segment adapted from NASA, astronomer Doris Daou explains how the forces of speed and gravity keep the Moon in a constant orbit around Earth.