The moon revolves around Earth, which together revolve around the sun. It takes Earth 365 days to make one revolution.
- Subject:
- Science
- Provider:
- Utah Education Network
- Author:
- Visual Learning Company
- Date Added:
- 02/28/2010
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)
An introduction to astronomy written with a historical perspective.
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.